Visual Basic 6.0

XML Examples for Visual Basic 6.0

• Concepts

• Benefit of XML Methods Having Names Ending in "2"
• Xml TagPath Property Explained
• XML Document References
• Demonstrate the XML "I" Property
• Demonstrate the XML I, J, and K Properties
• XML Path Performance Optimizations
• XML Tree Traversal Order for Search* Methods

• Navigating and Accessing Nodes

• Traverse the XML Tree
• Find Direct Child with Specific Tag
• GetChild* methods
• Iterate over Direct Child Nodes by Index
• Iterate over Direct Children with a Specific Tag
• Traverse Direct Children via FirstChild / NextSibling, or LastChild / PreviousSibling
• XML GetChildWithAttr
• Access an Inner Node of an XML Document
• Parsing XML Children Having Identical Tags

• Attributes

• Methods for Getting Attributes
• Get XML Attribute Value by Path
• Update an XML Attribute
• Find XML Element where Attribute = Value
• Find and Update an XML Attribute Value

• Searching

• SearchAllForContent
• XML SearchForAttribute Method
• XML SearchForTag Method
• Demonstrate the XML FindNextRecord Method
• XML Accumulate Tag Content

• Creating XML

• Creating a New Child Node
• Setting XML Tag and Content
• XML NewChild2 using a Tag Path
• Demonstrate the XML NewChildInt2 Method
• Create XML using Tag Paths
• Create XML with Multiple Same-Tag Children
• Insert after Node with Tag
• Insert XML into existing XML by calling InsertChildTreeAfter

• Updating and Removing Nodes

• Demonstrate the XML UpdateAt Method
• Demonstrate the XML UpdateAttrAt Method
• UpdateChildContent using a Tag Path
• Removing / Deleting Child Nodes from XML
• Remove an XML Subtree

• Sorting

• XML Sort by Content
• XML Sort by Tag
• XML Sort Records by Content

• Loading, Formatting and Content

• Using CDATA in XML
• Handling Namespaces in XML Tags
• Setting the XML DOCTYPE
• Auto-Trim XML Content when Loading
• Load ucs2 XML File (utf-16)
• XML EmitCompact
• Scrub Xml
• Efficiently Process a Huge XML File

• Compression and Encryption

• Compress XML Content
• Compress XML Tree
• Encrypting and Decrypting Content

• Real-World Examples: SOAP, Embedded PDFs, Excel

• SOAP WS-Security UsernameToken
• SOAP WS-Security Username Authentication
• Extract and Save PDF from SOAP XML
• Insert PDF as Base64 into XML, then Extract back to PDF File
• Extract PDF Invoice from FatturaElettronica XML
• Parse the XML of an Excel (XLS) Spreadsheet