<buttons>
<bgcolor>red</bgcolor>
<fontcolor>blue</fontcolor>
<fontsize>12</fontsize>
<fonttype>arial</fonttype>
<fontstyle>bold</fontstyle>
</buttons>
Reading XML using C#
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I have searched everywere and havn't found much good info on this. Is what i am wanting to do is read in a xml file that will store how my program looks like the background colour, font colour, font size, font type, font style ect ect so then i could change the programs looks with xml. This is what a basic xml file for my program would look like:
How would i read this in so i can get each individual value to change my programs properties and be able to allways expand on the xml file aswell? thanks in advance.
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In .NET 1.1 you want the XmlSerializer class. Things have apparently changed a bit for .NET 2.0 though, but I haven't had a chance to check out XML serialization in 2.0 yet.
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Quote:Original post by Dave Hunt
There are a ton of XML-with-C# articles here.
I did find one usefull there but it only seemed to read in all commands like this
<width> .. </width>
<height> .. </height>
and i don't think i can encapsulate the attributes into each object like in my xml setup file i want to be able to change buttons ui, textboxs, window, font ect and each one of those are in its own catogary with its own attributes like
<buttons>
<width>123</width>
</buttons>
I will also look into serialization to but i suck at xml lol.
You might try a format more like this:
I find that a bit easier to parse.
<buttons> <property name="bgcolor" value="red" /> <property name="fontcolor" value="blue /> <property name="fontsize" value="12" /> <property name="fonttype" value="arial" /> <property name="fontstyle" value="bold" /></buttons>I find that a bit easier to parse.
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How do i parse that with C# xml classes? so i can read in the values of each attribute and assigne the value into my programs global variables.
You have a couple of options when it comes to XML in .NET:
Play around with each method of creating and reading XML data and pick which method you like best. It really depends on what you're trying to accomplish with what you're doing.
- The System.Xml namespace provides a XmlDocument which you can use to construct and "destruct" XML documents. You pretty much just write it node by node or read through it node by node.
- The IXmlSerializable interface will let you serialize classes by reading and writing the members your own way.
- With the XmlSerializer class, you can serialize classes to xml dynamically.
Play around with each method of creating and reading XML data and pick which method you like best. It really depends on what you're trying to accomplish with what you're doing.
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Is what i am creating is a setup file so i can read the xml data in and each element has attributes then i read each attribute in and assigne the value of each into the right variable. How can i do this can you by anychance show some code? thanks.
Here's some code from my game. Obviously, it has nothing to do with whatever you're doing, but you might be able to gleam something from it.
public static void loadShipsXml() { SHIPS = new Dictionary<string, ShipData>(); XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument(); doc.Load(Settings.DATA_PATH + @"ships.xml"); XmlNode rootNode = doc.DocumentElement; XmlNodeList allShips = rootNode.ChildNodes; for(int i = 0; i < allShips.Count; i++) { ShipData nextShip = new ShipData(); XmlElement current = (XmlElement) allShips; XmlNodeList children = current.ChildNodes; for(int j = 0; j < children.Count; j++) { if(children[j].Name == "speed") { nextShip.speed = double.Parse(children[j].InnerText); } else if(children[j].Name == "hp") { nextShip.hp = int.Parse(children[j].InnerText); } else if(children[j].Name == "graphics") { nextShip.graphics = Settings.processXMLGraphics(children[j]); } else if(children[j].Name == "component") { nextShip.components.AddLast(ComponentData.COMPONENTS[children[j].InnerText]); } } SHIPS.Add(current.Attributes[0].Value, nextShip); }
Side note:
C# allows switches on strings:
can become:
C# allows switches on strings:
if(children[j].Name == "speed") { nextShip.speed = double.Parse(children[j].InnerText); } else if(children[j].Name == "hp") { nextShip.hp = int.Parse(children[j].InnerText); } else if(children[j].Name == "graphics") { nextShip.graphics = Settings.processXMLGraphics(children[j]); } else if(children[j].Name == "component") { nextShip.components.AddLast(ComponentData.COMPONENTS[children[j].InnerText]); }can become:
switch (children[j].Name) { case "speed": nextShip.speed = double.Parse(children[j].InnerText); break; case "hp": nextShip.hp = int.Parse(children[j].InnerText); break; case "graphics" nextShip.graphics = Settings.processXMLGraphics(children[j]); break; case "component": nextShip.components.AddLast(ComponentData.COMPONENTS[children[j].InnerText]); break; }This topic is closed to new replies.
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