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How to add IntelliSense to xml editor, by validating a xml against a xsd in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012

28 May, 2013 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

Open a xml file in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012. Press F4 (properties windows will open) Click on Schemas Browse to the xsd you want to use After clicking OK, the xml file will show errors:

How to serialize and deserialize an object in C# to a XML file

15 April, 2010 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

The following code shows how to serialize and deserialize an object in C# to a XML file. Code using System; using System.Linq; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.IO; using System.Xml.Serialization; using System.Reflection; namespace MobileUI.BC

Dynamically call a xslt template

31 December, 2009 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 0 categories

You cannot call a xslt template like: <xsl:variable name="templateName" select="test"></xsl:variable> <xsl:call-template name="$templateName"> <xsl:template name="test"> </xsl:template> The clossed you can get to calling a xslt template dynamically is to use the <xsl:if or <xsl:choose based on

How to copy XML nodes between documents (use ImportNode)

16 December, 2009 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 0 categories

http://www.geekpedia.com/tutorial150_How-to-copy-XML-nodes-between-documents.html To copy node between XmlDocuments use importnode: // Store the root node of the destination document into an XmlNode // The 1 in ChildNodes[1] is the index of the node to be copied (where

Replace XElement with xml in string (C#)

15 December, 2009 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 0 categories

If you want to replace an existing XElement by an new XElement conctructed from a string, you can use the XElement ReplaceWith method: XElement element = new XElement("MyName", "MyContent"); string newValue = "<MyNewName>Some value</MyNewName>"; element.ReplaceWith(XElement.Parse(newValue));

You should use System.Security.SecurityElement.Escape in C# to escape special characters in XML and not System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlEncode

23 September, 2009 Roel van Lisdonk 2 Comments 1 category

You should use the function System.Security.SecurityElement.Escape and not the function System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlEncode to escape special characters in XML if you don’t want the characters like éûÉ to be converted to éûÉ which is permit able but

SketchPath XPath query tool

22 June, 2009 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 0 categories

If you want to know the XPath query to an element of a XML file, but you’re new to XPath, you can use the Freeware tool: SketchPath to get show the XPath query. In mine

Using quotes in XML

6 March, 2009 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 0 categories

To use quotes in xml, use “"“ <exec program="CMD.EXE" commandline="/C "${installPath}\DatabaseInstallation.cmd"" workingdir="${installPath}"> <arg value="${Database_DataSource}" />

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