Working With Nested XML Data

Hello,
I'm doing my best to create a page in Dreamweaver CS4 utilizing Spry datasets and, I hope, a valid nested XML file. What I want to do is use one XML file that provides the content for my nav div and my content div. It would, in essence, display as an outline. When a user clicks on an item in the nav div the content would be displayed. What I'm guessing would work for the XML file would be this format:
<content>
<topic name="Elements">   //--this would serve as the nav element and trigger
    <header>Non-editable</header>   //--this would serve as a header in the content area
    <info>
      <detail id="1">CSS, javascript</detail>   //--this would serve as detail under the headers in the content area.
      <detail id="2">Headers</detail>
      <detail id="3">Footers</detail>
      <detail id="4">Areas within navigation panel</detail>
    </info>
</topic>
</content>
I got the idea from this page in Live Docs: Create a Spry nested data set. Also from a Labs page called Nested XML Data Sample. I've been able to make various parts of the page work but I don't know what is broken. My issues are this:
I once saw but can no longer find a method for preventing redundant display of data. In this case, the nav elements which are attributes in my XML file.
The details are showing up in my content area. I must be doing the code for the nesting incorrectly.
I want to then use the details in the content area to trigger spry tooltips, the content for whih would be genereated from an XML file or HTML frags.
Here is my latest, ill-fated attempt:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:spry="http://ns.adobe.com/spry">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Menu - Content Example</title>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryNestedXMLDataSet.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="SpryAssets/xpath.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryData.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryStackedContainers.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header">
    <h1>CSU Website Clinic</h1>
    <h3>Bill Milhoan, IS&T Technical Trainer</h3>
</div>
<div id="content" spry:region="dsInfo">
    <ul spry:repeatchildren="dsInfo">
      <li>{dsContent5::info}</li>
    </ul>
</div>
<div class="nav" spry:region="dsContent5">
    <ul spry:repeatchildren="dsContent5" spry:choose="">
      <li spry:when="{dsContent5::ds_CurrentRowID} == {dsContent5::ds_RowID}" spry:setrow="dsContent5" spry:select="select" spry:hover="hover" spry:selected="">{dsContent5::@name}</li>
      <li spry:default="" spry:setrow="dsContent5" spry:select="select" spry:hover="hover">{dsContent5::@name}</li>
    </ul>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Thoughts? My hope is to distill this process so I can teach others how to do it in the hopes that they will find it easier to keep their department/program websites up-to-date.
Thanks for the help.
Bill Milhoan
Cleveland State University

I apologize, im using Spry XML Data Set. i guess the best way to describe what im trying to do is, i want to use the Non-desctructive filter sample with the Spry Nested XML Data sample. So with my sample xml on my first post and with the same code non-destructive filter is using, im having trouble trying to search repeating nodes, for some reason it only searches the last node of the repeating nodes. Does that make sense? let me know.
thank you Arnout!

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Hi,
How do you use Non-destructive filter with Nested XML data?
I am using the non-destructive filter sample with my own xml which is setup to search for the <smc></smcs> in my xml below. But when i test it it only searches the last row of the "smc". How can i make it work so it can search for repeating nodes? or does it have something to with how my xml is setup?
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        <role>description...</role>
        <prole>Process role goes here...</prole>
        <role>description....</role>
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here is the javascript that runs it.
function FilterData()
    var tf = document.getElementById("filterTF");
    if (!tf.value)
        // If the text field is empty, remove any filter
        // that is set on the data set.
        ds1.filter(null);
        return;
    // Set a filter on the data set that matches any row
    // that begins with the string in the text field.
    var regExpStr = tf.value;
if (!document.getElementById("containsCB").checked)
        regExpStr = "^" + regExpStr;
    var regExp = new RegExp(regExpStr, "i");
    var filterFunc = function(ds, row, rowNumber)
        var str = row["smc"];
        if (str && str.search(regExp) != -1)
        return row;
        return null;
    ds1.filter(filterFunc);
function StartFilterTimer()
    if (StartFilterTimer.timerID)
        clearTimeout(StartFilterTimer.timerID);
    StartFilterTimer.timerID = setTimeout(function() { StartFilterTimer.timerID = null; FilterData(); }, 100);
I really need help on this, or are there any other suggestions or samples that might work?
thank you!

I apologize, im using Spry XML Data Set. i guess the best way to describe what im trying to do is, i want to use the Non-desctructive filter sample with the Spry Nested XML Data sample. So with my sample xml on my first post and with the same code non-destructive filter is using, im having trouble trying to search repeating nodes, for some reason it only searches the last node of the repeating nodes. Does that make sense? let me know.
thank you Arnout!

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<span spry:region="dsCities dsStates dsStates" id="citySelector">
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I found an error in the sample code on the
Nested
XML Data Sample under "Using Nested Data Sets." Line 8 has
var dsToppings = new Spry.Data.NestedXMLDataSet(dsItems1,
"toppings");, but it should be
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"topping"); in order to match the XML file.
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needed to include
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the others in the head.
Thanks for your work!
Jonathan

Hi Jonathan,
Thanks for catching that. I corrected the doc and the change
will appear when we release 1.5.
Also, regarding <script> includes sample, yes, we
should definitely be doing that.
Thanks!!!
--== Kin ==--

Nested XML data set

Hi there,
I have a problem with displaying some nested XML data. I've
tried quite a lot of different approachey to this, but just can't
get it working properly. So here's the deal:
I have an XML file (which is dynamically created from a
servlet) of the form:
<variations>
<variation>
<name>...</name>
<...>...</...>
<links>
<link>
<type>...</type>
<name>...</name>
</link>
</links>
</variation>
</variations>
On my webpage, I use a Spry tabbed panel with one tab for
each of the 'variation's in the XML file. Within the tabs I have
(many) form fields dynamically filled with the values from the XML
and that all works fine, but I also want to display a table with
one row corresponding to each 'link'... and that just won't work...
My latest approach looks something like this:
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</head>
<body>
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<div id="TP1" class="TabbedPanels">
<ul class="TabbedPanelsTabGroup">
<li spry:repeat="dsVariations" class="TabbedPanelsTab"
tabindex="0">{dsVariations::name}</li>
</ul>
<div class="TabbedPanelsContentGroup">
<div spry:repeat="dsVariations"
class="TabbedPanelsContent">
// a lot of form stuff
<table border="1">
<script type="text/javascript">
dsLinks.setURL("Servlet?id={dsVariations::id}&cmd=getLinks");
dsLinks.loadData();
</script>
<tr spry:repeat="dsLinks">
<td>{dsLinks::type}</td>
<td>{dsLinks::name}</td>
</tr>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
</body>
In this, the Servlet call with cmd=getVariations returns the
whole XML stated above, while the cmd=getLinks will only get the
corresponding part (everything between <links> and
</links>).
The error message I get for this is: processTokens() failed
to get a data set context!.
I previously tried to use a NestedXMLDataSet, but couldn't
get that working either... I'm really kind of stuck by now and
would appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Florian
PS Thanks a lot for creating Spry: It's great!

Thanks for your reply, Cristian.
I'm afraid I couldn't do that since it would cause the whole
region to be reloaded constantly (because it's being updated each
time I do the setURL / loadData)... in fact, I tried this before
and it didn't work.
But, in fact, I figured that the fact that I could not get it
running using a NestedXMLDataSet (as I would generally prefer), did
not actually come down to a problem in the page source code, but
actually to a problem with the very XML itself:
I tried to recreate the simple nested data set example (
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/data_region/NestedDataSample.html)
and basically used the same code and an almost identical XML
structure... yet it doesn't work. The contents of dsFeatures just
won't be displayed and when I'm inspecting the contents of
dsFeatures (using Firebug) it shows me that the dataset is empty. I
just don't get why it works for your example, but not for my
modified version... I can't see any crucial difference :-s.
To simplify the problem I deleted most tags from the XML and
saved it in a static document "variations.xml":
<variations>
<variation>
<name>Var 1</name>
<features>
<feature>none</feature>
<feature>feat1</feature>
<feature>feat2</feature>
</features>
</variation>
<variation>
<name>Var 2</name>
<features>
<feature>none</feature>
</features>
</variation>
</variations>
The source of the test page would be:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:spry="
http://ns.adobe.com/spry">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Nested Data Sample</title>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"
src="SpryAssets/xpath.js"></script>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"
src="SpryAssets/SpryData.js"></script>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"
src="SpryAssets/SpryNestedXMLDataSet.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var dsVariations = new Spry.Data.XMLDataSet("variations.xml",
"/variations/variation");
var dsFeatures = new Spry.Data.NestedXMLDataSet(dsVariations,
"features/feature");
</script>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<th width="30%"
onclick="dsVariations.sort('name');">dsVariations</th>
<th width="30%"
onclick="dsFeatures.sort('link')">dsFeatures</th>
<th width="30%">dsVariations + dsFeatures</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><div
spry:region="dsVariations">
<ul>
<li spry:repeat="dsVariations" spry:select="select"
spry:hover="hover" spry:setrow="dsVariations"> {name}
</li>
</ul>
</div></td>
<td valign="top"><div spry:region="dsFeatures">
<ul>
<li spry:repeat="dsFeatures"> {dsFeatures::feature}
</li>
</ul>
</div></td>
<td valign="top"><div spry:region="dsVariations
dsFeatures">
<ul>
<li spry:repeat="dsVariations"> {dsVariations::name}
<ul>
<li
spry:repeat="dsFeatures">{dsFeatures::feature}</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
Evidently, I'm missing some essential simple point here...
Thanks,

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Hello.
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Updates & revisions to the menu would be done by simply uploading a new XML file to the server whenever something needs changed.
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==================================================
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==================================================
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---- Item (hyperlink)
---- Item (hyperlink)
---- Item
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Menuheading
---- Item
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       ------- sub submenu item (hyperlink)
       ------- sub submenu item (hyperlink)
---- Item (hyperlink)
---- Item (hyperlink)
---- Item (hyperlink)
...and so on.
I have attached both files in their entirety at the bottom of the post in hopes someone can help.
==================================================
Here is the relevant HTML
==================================================
<head>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="includes/xpath.js"></script>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="includes/SpryData.js"></script>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="includes/SpryNestedXMLDataSet.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">var dsItems1 = new Spry.Data.XMLDataSet("MenuXML.xml", "/menu/menuitem", { subPaths: [ "items/item", "subitem" ] });</script>
</head>
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<tr>
<th width="62">Menu ID</th>
            <th width="171">Menu Heading</th>
            <th width="257">Menu Items</th>
            <th width="257">Submenu Items</th>
        </tr>
<tr spry:repeat="dsItems1">
<td>{@id}</td>
            <td>{menuheading}</td>
            <td>{items/item}</td>
            <td>{subitem}</td>
        </tr>
</table>
</div>
</body>
==================================================
A representative snippet of the XML is shown here:
==================================================
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<menu>
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... and on and on ...
</menu>
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many thanks in advance

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Hi. VC Experts.
                         I am currently working with VC 6.0. Where I am working with Validation of Data.
we have fields like Emp, Earea, Joining date (month & Year), Ending date((month & Year) etc.,
Here we have one push button 'select'.
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Hi Vijay,
sorry
please rewrite the formula for the button disable as::
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BOOL(IF(LEN(@Emp_code) '<''>'0 AND LEN(@Earea)'<''>'0 AND LEN(@Edept)'<''>'0 AND DSUB(DVAL(@Joining_date), DVAL(@Ending_date),'D')<0 ,false,true))
and make sure you have placed the date picker UI controls for your date functionality.
this will not work for calender UI control on the form.
and othe important point is the joining date should be less than ending date then only the button will be enable..
if you want your joining date should be greater than ending date then write the formaula like this::
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i tried this
its working for me
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insert into test values (date_tab(to_date('10-jan-2007'),to_date('15-jan-2007'),to_date('15-jan-2007')));
commit;
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Is that documented somewhere? Regarding database versions, it was 9.0.1 that claimed an integrated parser. I don't see any update for 10g.
> So in the old days one had to do a [SELECT sysdate INTO d FROM dual] to assign a function value to a PL/SQL var - as the function did not exist in PL/SQL.
Then (from Oracle 7 onwards?) these functions were also available in PL/SQL. However, the two engines did not share common code. So functions in SQL did not always behave like function in PL/SQL and vice versa.
I don't recall that limitation in PL/SQL v1 (Forms 3 to 4.5, and database v6, though I doubt many people actually used PL/SQL on the database because (1) it was separately licensed, and (2) it didn't have stored procedures) - but then it was a while ago so I could be mistaken.
I know USER, SYSDATE and others used to be implicit queries of dual (i.e. the supplied PL/SQL function was just a wrapper containing SELECT SYSDATE INTO dt FROM dual; RETURN dt;) although that's probably just confusing the issue.

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Hi there Experts
I am trying to transfer XML data to BW. I have done the worked example in the How to send XML Data to BW document and its all working fine.
The problem with the example is that the data is in a flat format without any nested loops. So for one Vendor 4711 and two materials gizmo and widgets the data structure essentially looks like this:
<DATA>
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          <MATERIAL>gizmo</MATERIAL>
     </item>
     <item>
          <VENDOR>4711</VENDOR>
          <MATERIAL>widget</MATERIAL>
     </item>
<DATA>
Now, since we have a fair bit of data, rather than creating one new line (item) for each combination of VENDOR and MATERIAL we want to set up a nested structure in XML that can be read in BW, something along the lines of
<DATA>
     <item>
          <VENDOR>4711</VENDOR>
               <MATERIAL>gizmo</MATERIAL>
               <MATERIAL>widget</MATERIAL>
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<DATA>
Unfortunately, all attempts have failed so far to create such a structure and admittedly I know very little about XML to begin with. Any ideas?
Thanks and greetings from Hamburg!
Christian

Hi ,
You mentioned that you have sucessfully configured to load the XML data into BW.
Even I also tried to configure by refering to the "How to" document, but am not sucessfull. Could you please help me in this regard.
I configured the .dll files, but still am getting the
error "Automation server can't create the object".
Could you send me the step by step procedure..
The operating system we are using is the Windows XP.
Even i searched the SDN, couple of them replied, its not sucessfull.
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Hi Developers,
In USPS I can send the xml request with http url in the browser and successfully getting the xml response. How can we achieve the same concept in FedEx?
Is this possible?
In FedEx site i downloaded the xml-transaction pdf, which contains the multiple xml request. I don't know how to test it with the browser.
Sample xml request for Fedex which i founded in the above mentioned pdf is shown below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<FDXSubscriptionRequest xmlns:api="http://www.fedex.com/fsmapi" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchemainstance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="FDXSubscriptionRequest.xsd">
<RequestHeader>
<CustomerTransactionIdentifier>String</CustomerTransactionIdentifier>
<AccountNumber>123456789</AccountNumber>
</RequestHeader>
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<PersonName>Jim Smith</PersonName>
<CompanyName>Creative Widgets</CompanyName>
<Department>Shipping</Department>
<PhoneNumber>5405559900</PhoneNumber>
<PagerNumber>9999999999</PagerNumber>
<FaxNumber>5405559901</FaxNumber>
<E-MailAddress>[email protected]</E-MailAddress>
</Contact>
<Address>
<Line1>123 Main Street</Line1>
<Line2>1st Floor</Line2>
<City>Anycity</City>
<StateOrProvinceCode>VA</StateOrProvinceCode>
<PostalCode>24060</PostalCode>
<CountryCode>US</CountryCode>
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and they also provide the sample xml response which is given below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
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xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="FDXSubscriptionReply.xsd">
<RequestHeader>
<CustomerTransactionIdentifier>String</CustomerTransactionIdentifier>
</RequestHeader>
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<SubscribedService>FedEx Express Shipping</SubscribedService>
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I want to know how to send the above mentioned FedEx xml request in the browser to reach the FedEx Server or how to achive the FedEx xml request using java
code.
But these concepts is possible in the USPS because we make a connection with http url(provided by usps) and then we will send the xml request, where as in FedEx the http url is inside the xml structure. So how can we achive this?
Please help me to come out from this problem
Thanks
Srinivasan

You might have to tweak this code some to get it to work, but it should at least lay the groundwork for solving your problem:
Code Snippet
/* Declare an XmlNode object and initialize it with the XML response from the GetListItems method. The last parameter specifies the GUID of the Web site containing the list. Setting it to null causes the Web site specified by the Url property to be used.*/
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System.Xml.XmlDocument xd = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();
xd.LoadXml(nodeListItems.OuterXml);
System.Xml.XmlNamespaceManager nm = new System.Xml.XmlNamespaceManager(xd.NameTable);
nm.AddNamespace("rs", "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset");
nm.AddNamespace("z", "#RowsetSchema");
nm.AddNamespace("rootNS", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap");
System.Xml.XmlNodeList nl = xd.SelectNodes("/rootNS:listitems/rs:data/z:row", nm);
foreach(System.Xml.XmlNode listItem in nl)
listBoxProsjekter.Items.Add(listItem.OuterXml);
I hope this helps!
Please look into the following site for more info:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4bektfx9(vs.80).aspx

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