Help parsing XML files using VB

SimpleSi · June 9, 2009

or any other language producing standalone exe

I want to make a prog to parse a bunch of xml files looking for a field and then change the value of that field.

Im completely stuck at the beginning just trying to use VB 2008 express to just read one simple XML file

Every single example I can find gives me an exception so I must be missing something "basic"

Help (from VB experts or anyone else using a free prog)

regards

Simon

Edited June 9, 2009 by SimpleSi

June 9, 2009

Hi,

I have used the following quite a bit

This is a more complete parsing article.

Not done much with vb.net, but you could use sharpcode to convert the c# to vb.net

Regards,

Tim

ICTNUT · June 9, 2009

Not sure if you want VB or VB.Net so heres both:

VB.Net:

VB:

Jamo · June 9, 2009

Check the MSDN refs, there is a .NET class for interpreting XML.

SimpleSi · June 9, 2009

Thanks for all the suggestions - I've found my problem!

I was using wordpad to save example xml files (I use it all the time to edit my real xml files) to read back in.

Of course, it defaults to saving as type rtf so the xml files were completely mal-formed

Found this out by just reading them back in one byte at a time

regards

Simon

Jamo · June 10, 2009

ah that would do it!! Try looking at Notepad++ for an alternative to that, it will format the files properly and make the code much easier to read!!

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