[xml] XML/libxml use question

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From: Todd Babinski (todd.babinski@dynetics.com)
Date: Tue Mar 06 2001 - 16:33:28 EST


Hello --
  
  I am pretty new to using libxml and relatively new to XML . I have a
question, but it may not pertain directly to libxml, so I apologize up
front. We have a project where some of the formats will be in XML.
We're still in the draft/dream-it-up phase, so I don't necessarily have
a concrete example to demonstrate, but the idea is pretty simple. We
plan to have several template files that fit a component DTD. We expect
these template files to be rather large, considering the amount of data
that they will contain. Now in use, what we would like to do is that
when a user instantiates one of these components, they can reference the
template file, then we parse it, and allow them to make changes to some
of the data through a GUI. What we would then like to do is to save the
data, but only save the parts that changed in reference to the template
file. So the problem boils down to being able to specify an xml file
that references the template file, then indicates parts that should
replace specific portions of that template file.
  
  I've read through much material on the web, and looked at several
books that I could find ("Professional XML" from Wrox Press in
particular), but did not find any example that worked in this way
(unless I overlooked it).
  
  Has anyone else tried this type of use (within libxml would be
wonderful!)? Aware of any documentation as to the correct XML way to do
this?

All help is appreciated. Thank you.

Todd Babinski

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