Getting dizzy cutting circles!

[Lee Roberts]

I have to go with Irving on this John, I use allot of xml files as well and if we took vbulletin this is how modifications are installed into the running system and how they do allot of other stuff to. I can’t see they would use such a system for vb because every web server is setup differently so this would give them all sorts of problems wouldn’t it?

Or are there different types of XML file?

And/or this is actually not the computers reading the file differently its Mach and the need for the G90.1, G91.1 codes? Have you been able to replicate and test this inconsistency with different computers John or?

[irving2008]

Or are there different types of XML file?

As you know Lee, there is only one true XML file structure, a heirachy of named nodes, which looks like:

 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root node>
 <block with named nodes>
   <data item 1>some data</data item 1>
   <data item 2>some data</data item 2>
   <data item 3>some data</data item 3>
 </block with named nodes>
 <another block with repeated nodes>
   <data item>some data</data item>
   <data item>some data</data item>
   <data item>some data</data item>
 </another block with repeated nodes>
</root node>

Its possible to use the .XML extension for something else but that would be silly..
Its also possible that file might be mis-formed - no closing label to a node for example, that could cause it to get misread, or a node incorrectly named. But you'd expect the reading program to cope with that and flag it to the user.

XML is heavily used for program and system configuration and works... we have over 400 servers and it would be a nightmare if it didnt...