Re: FN-FORUM: XML help

date posted 1st December 2005 21:22

Ben Moxon wrote:
>
> Thorny Bird wrote:
>
>> I have two xml files - one is basically a list of items and each list
>> element starts with it's own unique ID. The second xml file is also a
>> list
>> which has one element I want to combine with the first xml file and again
>> the element contains a unique ID. What I want to do is simple enough -
>> when
>> the two unique IDs match I want the element from the second file to be
>> added
>> to the first file basically concatenating them together when there is a
>> match.
>>
>> I've searched on Google for a likely program but am getting lost with
>> finding what I want. Any ideas?
>>
>>
>>
> That sounds like the kind of problem that there may not be a program
> written specifically to solve, although it would be very simple to write
> a program that does solve it.

Indeed.

In this case go with which ever language you know the best and find an
xml parser/writer library for it.

If you're not a programmer then I'm sure someone here will do it for a
small fee.

Nathan