On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Learner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to understand more about XSL and XSLT while dealing > with XML files. If I consider a scenario of getting data in an XML > format from another system (java) and then I want to be to able > process those XML files and store the data (thousands of records) in > our database (ASP.NET and SQL server) . Do I have to use XSL and XSLT > in this process? If so can some one please help me understand where > and why do we need these XSL and XSLT. if we do not need to use these > two technologies just to process the XML files to store in in our > databse then where do we use these two technologies. Appreciate your > time. -------------------
How are you going to extract the data out of the XML document you get from java? XSL helps to do that Linq is easier! So now you have multiple alternatives instead of only one. Is your XML file simplistic in that it resembles a CSV file and all rows need to get populated into the system or is the XML file really a collection of collections where a single Customer could have N orders with Y line items? Granted the XML could have Z customers as well ;-> -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer CIMSgts 901.246-0159 cell
