I don't know if it's different in Pocket PC but in Visual
Studio there's a namespace called system.xml that has all
of the classes for working with xml. For text you'll want
to use XMLTextReader/Writer. On-line help worked pretty
good for me. Here's some code to read an xml file:
Imports System
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Xml
'Reads an XML document
Public Class Sample
Private Const filename As String = "items.xml"
Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim reader As XmlTextReader = Nothing
Try
' Load the reader with the data file and
ignore all white space nodes.
reader = New XmlTextReader(filename)
reader.WhitespaceHandling =
WhitespaceHandling.None
' Parse the file and display each of the nodes.
While reader.Read()
Select Case reader.NodeType
Case XmlNodeType.Element
Console.Write("<{0}>", reader.Name)
Case XmlNodeType.Text
Console.Write(reader.Value)
Case XmlNodeType.CDATA
Console.Write("<![CDATA[{0}]]>",
reader.Value)
Case XmlNodeType.ProcessingInstruction
Console.Write("<?{0} {1}?>",
reader.Name, reader.Value)
Case XmlNodeType.Comment
Console.Write("<!--{0}-->",
reader.Value)
Case XmlNodeType.XmlDeclaration
Console.Write("<?xml version='1.0'?
Case XmlNodeType.Document
Case XmlNodeType.DocumentType
Console.Write("<!DOCTYPE {0}
[{1}]", reader.Name, reader.Value)
Case XmlNodeType.EntityReference
Console.Write(reader.Name)
Case XmlNodeType.EndElement
Console.Write("</{0}>",
reader.Name)
End Select
End While
Finally
If Not (reader Is Nothing) Then
reader.Close()
End If
End Try
End Sub 'Main
End Class 'Sample
[C#]
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
public class Sample {
private const String filename = "items.xml";
public static void Main() {
XmlTextReader reader = null;
try {
// Load the reader with the data file and ignore
all white space nodes.
reader = new XmlTextReader(filename);
reader.WhitespaceHandling =
WhitespaceHandling.None;
// Parse the file and display each of the nodes.
while (reader.Read()) {
switch (reader.NodeType) {
case XmlNodeType.Element:
Console.Write("<{0}>", reader.Name);
break;
case XmlNodeType.Text:
Console.Write(reader.Value);
break;
case XmlNodeType.CDATA:
Console.Write("<![CDATA[{0}]]>",
reader.Value);
break;
case XmlNodeType.ProcessingInstruction:
Console.Write("<?{0} {1}?>", reader.Name,
reader.Value);
break;
case XmlNodeType.Comment:
Console.Write("<!--{0}-->", reader.Value);
break;
case XmlNodeType.XmlDeclaration:
Console.Write("<?xml version='1.0'?>");
break;
case XmlNodeType.Document:
break;
case XmlNodeType.DocumentType:
Console.Write("<!DOCTYPE {0} [{1}]",
reader.Name, reader.Value);
break;
case XmlNodeType.EntityReference:
Console.Write(reader.Name);
break;
case XmlNodeType.EndElement:
Console.Write("</{0}>", reader.Name);
break;
}
}
}
finally {
if (reader!=null)
reader.Close();
}
}
} // End class
[Visual Basic, C#] The sample uses the file items.xml.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- This is a sample XML document -->
<!DOCTYPE Items [<!ENTITY number "123">]>
<Items>
<Item>Test with an entity: &number;</Item>
<Item>test with a child element <more/> stuff</Item>
<Item>test with a CDATA section <![CDATA[<456>]]>
def</Item>
<Item>Test with an char entity: A</Item>
<!-- Fourteen chars in this element.-->
<Item>1234567890ABCD</Item>
