On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Hi, The small project I am working on requires reading a XML file and using that data for various things, including building a GUI interface. Most of my projects are database driven and uses the tiOPF framework to do my load/saving work (plus a lot of other things). As the title says, all my applications are normally object driven. This new project I am working on should not be any different. One big difference though is that it is not database driven and I don't want to bind it to tiOPF framework. So at the moment I reading the xml file and building my own object model based on the various elements and attributes in the XML file. Example: ----- <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <install desc="my description" version="0.9"> text for install element <eula>xxxx</eula> <eula lang="af">xxxxx</eula> </install> ---- ...would translate to classes as follows: elements become classes and attributes become properties... TSetupFile TInstall TEULAList TEULA Interfaces section of TInstall might look like this.... TInstall = class(TObject) public property Text: string... // 'text for install element' property Desc: string... // 'my description' property Version: string // '0.9' property EulaList: TEULAList ..... end; This makes sense to me, and this is the design I am used to following with tiOPF based projects. But like I said, I am not using tiOPF this time and I am working with a XML file, which I haven't worked with before. Am I taking the right OOP approach here, or should I rather be working with the dom unit and TXMLDocument, TXMLElement etc classes directly. At the moment I do not require writing to the XML file, only reading. At a much later date, I'll be writing to the XML file though. I feel my approach of using my own specialized classes is a better fit compared to the generic TXMLElement classes. But I just want to confirm my thoughts and also ask... How do other developers use XML files?
Yes. I use DOM to read the file, and then translate the found TDOMElement nodes to
the actual business classes. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
