[AccessD] xml tables

[Stuart McLachlan]

In that case,  brute force is about the only way to do it. 

<table>,<tr>,<th> and <td> tags are not case specific 
( a mix of <td>, <TD>, <Td> is  quite possible :) )
and you can have </td>  or </ td> (or even </       td>
Also they can contain all sorts of additional info (styles, alignment, IDs etc). 
The actual data between <td> tags can also contain all sorts of formatting tags (which may 
or may not be paired (e.g. <br />)

In addition, there may or may not be a row containing column names in <th> tags

To say nothing of nested table where you have a complete table inside a single <td> pair :(

-- 
Stuart


On 27 Jun 2022 at 22:18, John Colby wrote:

> It is html.  Sorry for the confusion.
> 
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 6:26 PM Stuart McLachlan
> <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> wrote:
> 
> > Is it XML or HMTL. SInce it's a webpage, I would expect it to be an
> > HTML table, not XML. The two are very different and need to be
> > handled in different ways.
> >
> > An  XML table looks like this:
> >
> > <CATALOG>
> > <CD>
> > <TITLE>Empire Burlesque</TITLE>
> > <ARTIST>Bob Dylan</ARTIST>
> > <COUNTRY>USA</COUNTRY>
> > <COMPANY>Columbia</COMPANY>
> > <PRICE>10.90</PRICE>
> > <YEAR>1985</YEAR>
> > </CD>
> >
> > An HTML table look like this:
> > <table>
> >   <tr>
> >     <th>Company</th>
> >     <th>Contact</th>
> >     <th>Country</th>
> >   </tr>
> >   <tr>
> >     <td>Alfreds Futterkiste</td>
> >     <td>Maria Anders</td>
> >     <td>Germany</td>
> >   </tr>
> >   <tr>
> >     <td>Centro comercial Moctezuma</td>
> >     <td>Francisco Chang</td>
> >     <td>Mexico</td>
> >   </tr>
> > </table>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 27 Jun 2022 at 9:16, John Colby wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone have a good resource on how to work with xml tables? 
> > > I have an application where I read the html from a web page.  This
> > > HTML has a table of info about a user and I need to parse out
> > > specific pieces and pull it into my database.  The data is in a
> > > table, with all of the associated table and field tags.
> > >
> > > I do a brute force parse to extract what I want but I just know
> > > that there is a way to pull the table out and iterate the rows.  I
> > > like clean and brute force parse is NOT clean.
> > >
> > > I am currently referencing the Microsoft XML v6.0 for working with
> > > xml. I don't use it much and have minimal knowledge of it.  Any
> > > tips or example code would be appreciated.
> > >
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