XML and C#

I'm so proud of myself! ^_^ I was finally able to do it!! wohoooo There's only one thing: this is how I loaded the xml and then changed the format with the xsl template //Load XML file XPathDocument myXPathDoc = new XPathDocument(xmlFile); //Load XSL stylesheet XslTransform myXslTrans = new XslTransform(); myXslTrans.Load(xslFile); //create the output stream XmlTextWriter myWriter = new XmlTextWriter ("htmlFile.html", null); //do the actual transform of Xml myXslTrans.Transform(myXPathDoc,null, myWriter); myWriter.Close() ; but VS tells me that the myXslTrans.Transform() is obsolete. It says "You should pass XmlResolver to Transform() method"...it still runs the program and it works fine, but it annoys me when it underlines things, so does someone know of a way to fix this issue? Thanks again!

try this :D http://www.google.ca/search?q=sort+with+xsl&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta=

xml is for storing not for displaying if you want to display these, u have to use xsl as you mentioned then you use xsl on top of your xml file and u can display it any way you want if you want to sort them for your win32 app then what u can do is you can read this xml file into a dataset and then you can use methods of dataset to play around with the order of data and to read xml files into datasets dataset have .ReadXml method that takes path to a xml file.

Ok, I was able to get to reading the XML file in two different ways: the one I wrote above which uses System.IO and System.Data, and the one you suggested which uses System.Xml. What's the difference between these and what are the pros and cons? Does your version give more power as to what can be done to the XML file? Thanx

I used a slightly different technique. This is what I have so far: using System; using System.Data; using System.IO; namespace MangaList { class Mangas { [STAThread] static void Main(string[] args) { try { //Entry Message Console.WriteLine(":: WELCOME TO DANIELE'S MANGA-LIST APPLICATION::\n\n"); Console.WriteLine("Here is a list of commands:\nls - Lists all entries\nadd - Add an entry\ndel - Delete an entry\nmod - Modify an entry\n"); string choice = Console.ReadLine(); choice = choice.ToLower(); DataSet ds = new DataSet(); ds.ReadXml("XML_Mangalist.xml"); int listNum = 1; if (choice == "ls") { //Loop through each row within the DataSet foreach (DataRow dr in ds.Tables[0].Rows) { //Display all information the XML document contains Console.WriteLine("\n\n{6}) -----------------\nSeries: {0}\nName: {1}\nAuthor: {2}\nPublisher: {3}\nVolume: {4}\nISBN: {5}\n", dr["Series"], dr["Name"], dr["Author"], dr["Publisher"], dr["Volume"], dr["ISBN"], listNum++); } } else if (choice == "add") { //create a new DataRow object containing the table schema //from the DataSet DataRow newrow = ds.Tables[0].NewRow(); Console.WriteLine("\nEnter the Series Name:"); //Take the input from the user and store it into the DataRow newrow["Series"] = Console.ReadLine(); Console.WriteLine("Enter the Manga's Name: "); newrow["Name"] = Console.ReadLine(); Console.WriteLine("Enter the Author's Name: "); newrow["Author"] = Console.ReadLine(); Console.WriteLine("Enter the Publisher's Name: "); newrow["Publisher"] = Console.ReadLine(); Console.WriteLine("Enter the Volume Number: "); newrow["Volume"] = Console.ReadLine(); Console.WriteLine("Enter the ISBN Number: "); newrow["ISBN"] = Console.ReadLine(); //Add the updated DataRow into the DataSet ds.Tables[0].Rows.Add(newrow); Console.WriteLine("Updating Database file"); //Open a FileStream to the Database in Write Mode FileStream fout = new FileStream("XML_Mangalist.xml", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.ReadWrite); //Write the XML data to the stream ds.WriteXml(fout); //Close the Stream fout.Close(); Console.WriteLine("Database Updated!"); } else if (choice == "del") { //The number of the entry is the number defined by //the integer listNum. Console.WriteLine("Select number of entry to delete:\n"); } else if (choice == "mod") { //The number of the entry is the number defined by //the integer listNum. Console.WriteLine("Select number of entry to modify:\n"); } else { Console.WriteLine("Please use one of the following commands\nls\nadd\ndel\nmod\n"); } } catch(Exception e) { Console.WriteLine(e.Message); } } } } How can I make it so that it deletes the entry and modifies it, and how can I arrange the titles alphabetically? Thanks again for your patience

I tried a few things with the code, but it doesn't seem to help, or rather, Im so bad I can't make anything of it...bah, Im ashamed -_- Could you explain in a bit more detail how I am to use that code please? Thanks again

following functions might help EXAMPLE: string getXML = getXMLNodeFromXMLFile(GlobalStuff.SettingsFile, "SearchSettings", "Code")) public static string getXMLNodeFromXMLFile( string xmlFile, string parentNode, string node) { try { XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument(); // get an XML document doc.Load(xmlFile); //load the file XmlNodeList xmlNode = doc.GetElementsByTagName(node); for(int i = 0; i < xmlNode.Count; i++) //loop through all the found nodes { if (xmlNode[i].ParentNode.Name == parentNode) //find the one we want in the collection { return xmlNode[i].InnerText.ToString(); //return the text } } return "Node belonging to " + parentNode + " was not found in " + xmlFile; } catch(System.Exception e) //catch the exception such as if the file passed in is not found { return e.Message; } } EXAMPLE: myXML.setXMLNodeInXMLFile(GlobalStuff.SettingsFile, "SearchSettings", "Code", "ON"); public static bool setXMLNodeInXMLFile( string xmlFile, string parentNode, string node, string nodeValue) { try { XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument(); // get an XML document doc.Load(xmlFile); //load the file XmlNodeList xmlNode = doc.GetElementsByTagName(node); for(int i = 0; i < xmlNode.Count; i++) //loop through all the found nodes { if (xmlNode[i].ParentNode.Name == parentNode) //find the one we want in the collection { xmlNode[i].InnerText = nodeValue; //set the text doc.Save(xmlFile); //save the file back return true; } } return false; } catch(System.Exception) //catch the exception such as if the file passed in is not found { return false; } }