Re: [WiX-users] trying to add XML element to a web.config file
Got it working :) AND it is the last line in the parent element which is perfect... now to figure out how to remove it on uninstall, I guess it would be the same as install but uninstall? util:XmlConfig Id=XmlWebConfigAddCreate File=[DIRECTORY_PATH_CLIENT]Web.Config Action=create Node=element ElementPath=//configuration/location/system.webServer/modules Name=add On=install Sequence=1/ util:XmlConfig Id=XmlWebConfigAddType File=[DIRECTORY_PATH_CLIENT]Web.Config ElementId=XmlWebConfigAddCreate Name=type Value=Blah, blah.2.2013 Sequence=2/ util:XmlConfig Id=XmlConfigAddName File=[DIRECTORY_PATH_CLIENT]Web.Config ElementId=XmlWebConfigAddCreate Name=name Value=AppCacheModule Sequence=3/ /Component -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/trying-to-add-XML-element-to-a-web-config-file-tp7596447p7596452.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] trying to add XML element to a web.config file
Hi, I think you'll want to add a VerifyPath attribute to the XmlConfig element that creates the 'add' element so that it doesn't pick up the existing element called 'add'. It will need to be something like //configuration/location/system.webServer/modules/add[[]@name='Blah, Blah.2.2013'[]], which will look for an element called add with an attribute called name with that value (don't forget this is a formatted value, hence the escaping around the square brackets). I think you'll then want to have the XmlConfig element that creates the 'name' attribute, to be a child of the XmlConfig element that creates the 'add' element, so that the 'name' attribute gets applied to the 'add' element you just created. I think you can then remove the ElementPath attribute for the child XmlConfig element. There are now two cases: either add name=Blah.. will already exist, in which case it won't be created by your installer, or it will not exist and it will be created by your installer. If you only want the 'type' attribute to be set when the element is actually created, then you'll need to put the XmlConfig element that creates the 'type' attribute as a child of the XmlConfig element that creates the 'add' element (like the XmlConfig element that creates the 'name' attribute). If you want the 'type' attribute to the set regardless of whether your installer actually created the element, then you'll need to change the ElementPath attribute to an XPath expression that only picks up the add element you want to modify: //configuration/location/system.webServer/modules/add[[]@name='Blah, Blah.2.2013'[]]. I haven't actually tried this, YMMV with some of the parameter values, but hopefully it gives you some idea of where to look next. Nicholas On 21 August 2014 00:34, Steve-Ogilvie steven.ogil...@titus.com wrote: Okay I have it working... the only problem is that it is replacing the first add element which I don't want, I want it to be a new lt;add element underneath the first... lt;util:XmlConfig Id=quot;XmlWebConfigAddCreatequot; File=quot;[DIRECTORY_PATH_CLIENT]Web.Configquot; Action=quot;createquot; Node=quot;elementquot; ElementPath=quot;//configuration/location/system.webServer/modulesquot; Name=quot;addquot; On=quot;installquot; Sequence=quot;1quot;/ util:XmlConfig Id=XmlWebConfigAddType File=[DIRECTORY_PATH_CLIENT]Web.Config Action=create Node=value ElementPath=//configuration/location/system.webServer/modules/add Name=type Value=Blah, Blah.2.2013 On=install Sequence=2/ util:XmlConfig Id=XmlConfigAddName File=[DIRECTORY_PATH_CLIENT]Web.Config Action=create Node=value ElementPath=//configuration/location/system.webServer/modules/add Name=name Value=AppCacheModule On=install Sequence=3/ -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/trying-to-add-XML-element-to-a-web-config-file-tp7596447p7596448.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] trying to add XML element to a web.config file
thanks James and Nicholas... phew trial and error and Google for about a day and a half :) steve -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/trying-to-add-XML-element-to-a-web-config-file-tp7596447p7596456.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] trying to add XML element to a web.config file
thanks Nicholas, got it removed on uninstall :) util:XmlConfig Id=XmlWebConfigAddRemove File=[DIRECTORY_PATH_CLIENT]Web.Config Action=delete Node=element ElementPath=//configuration/location/system.webServer/modules VerifyPath=//configuration/location/system.webServer/modules/add[\[]@type='Blah, blah.2.2013'[\]] On=uninstall Sequence=100/ -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/trying-to-add-XML-element-to-a-web-config-file-tp7596447p7596455.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] trying to add XML element to a web.config file
Well I didn't get to post the problem/fix before you did (I noticed you used ElementPath instead of ElementId), but I can at least help you a tiny bit with the uninstall... Component Id=XXXUninstall Guid=myGUID util:XmlConfig Id=XXXUninstall File=[DIRECTORY_PATH_CLIENT]web.config Action=delete Node=element VerifyPath=add[\[]@name='AppCacheModule'[\]] ElementPath=//configuration/location/system.webServer/modules On=uninstall Sequence=1 / CreateFolder/ /Component If I've modified this correctly it should handle the uninstall for you. I remember the first time i tested an uninstall where i had to edit a web.config, got it wrong and removed half my web.config :) James -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/trying-to-add-XML-element-to-a-web-config-file-tp7596447p7596454.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] trying to add XML element to a web.config file
Hi folks, I am trying to add a new element to a web.config file, new element would be similar to: add type=Blah, Blah.2.2013 name=AppCacheModule / The web.config file looks like this (it has other add elements under the modules element: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? configuration location inheritInChildApplications=false ... system.webServer ... modules add name=something type=some type, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=3/ add name my element here/ ... /modules /system.webServer /location /configuration I need to add my element below the 1st add under modules, I have tried various things and nothing works quite right :( util:XmlConfig Id=XmlWebConfigAddCreate File=[DIRECTORY_PATH_CLIENT]Web.Config PreserveModifiedDate=yes Action=create Node=element ElementPath=//configuration/location/system.webServer/modules Name=add Sequence=1/ util:XmlConfig Id=XmlWebConfigAddType File=[DIRECTORY_PATH_CLIENT]Web.Config PreserveModifiedDate=yes ElementPath=XmlWebConfigAddCreate Name=type Value=Blah, Blah.2.2013 Sequence=2/ util:XmlConfig Id=XmlConfigAddName File=[DIRECTORY_PATH_CLIENT]Web.Config PreserveModifiedDate=yes ElementPath=XmlWebConfigAddType Name=name Value=AppCacheModule Sequence=3/ this doesn't work :( any idea what I am doing wrong? thanks, Steve -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/trying-to-add-XML-element-to-a-web-config-file-tp7596447.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] trying to add XML element to a web.config file
Okay I have it working... the only problem is that it is replacing the first add element which I don't want, I want it to be a new lt;add element underneath the first... lt;util:XmlConfig Id=quot;XmlWebConfigAddCreatequot; File=quot;[DIRECTORY_PATH_CLIENT]Web.Configquot; Action=quot;createquot; Node=quot;elementquot; ElementPath=quot;//configuration/location/system.webServer/modulesquot; Name=quot;addquot; On=quot;installquot; Sequence=quot;1quot;/ util:XmlConfig Id=XmlWebConfigAddType File=[DIRECTORY_PATH_CLIENT]Web.Config Action=create Node=value ElementPath=//configuration/location/system.webServer/modules/add Name=type Value=Blah, Blah.2.2013 On=install Sequence=2/ util:XmlConfig Id=XmlConfigAddName File=[DIRECTORY_PATH_CLIENT]Web.Config Action=create Node=value ElementPath=//configuration/location/system.webServer/modules/add Name=name Value=AppCacheModule On=install Sequence=3/ -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/trying-to-add-XML-element-to-a-web-config-file-tp7596447p7596448.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
