Parsing data from indexed field

Question

 
Hi,
A contractor is developing a program to parse data from a form that I created in LiveCycle. There are some tables in the form where text fields in the same column have the same base name and are assigned an index by LiveCycle. For instance, there might be a CompanyName column with 6 text fields in each of 6 rows, where the text fields are named as follows: CompanyName [0], CompanyName [1], CompanyName [2], CompanyName [3], CompanyName [4], CompanyName [5].
The programmer of the parsing program is having trouble parsing the data for those indexed fields from the XML.  Any pointers you could give me (that I would pass on to the programmer) for how to parse data from fields with indexed names like these?  I know just a little about what he is trying to do.  He said he is using a third-party DLL called iTextSharp for the parsing.  If any pointers come to mind on what he might do, please let me know.
Thanks,
Emily

Answer 1

When design Adobe forms, you can have multiple fields with same name; as you mentioned your fields can be named as
CompanyName [0], CompanyName [1], CompanyName [2], CompanyName [3], CompanyName [4], CompanyName [5]
However when the form is submitted the form data (in the form of XML) would look like as follows:
<xdp:xdp xmlns:xdp="http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/">
    <xfa:datasets xmlns:xfa="http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/">
        <xfa:data>
            <form1>
                    <page1>
                              <yourSubform>
                                       <CompanyName>My Company 1</CompanyName>
                                        <CompanyName>My Company 2</CompanyName>
                                        <CompanyName>My Company 3</CompanyName>
                                        <CompanyName>My Company 4</CompanyName>
                                        <CompanyName>My Company 5</CompanyName>
                                        <CompanyName>My Company 6</CompanyName>
                              </yourSubform>
                    </page1>
            </form1>  
        </xfa:data>
    </xfa:datasets>
</xdp:xdp>
Note that all the CompanyName fields are named without any indexing.
If you explain this format to your programmer, he will be able to understand and write a logic to retrieve all CompanyName field's values.