Renaming elements in XML output

Author: tneeskens@itblockz.nl (Theo Neeskens)

Hi, I have a situation where I need to: – retrieve lots of related data in a Uniface service – create a struct using componenttostruct – create XML using structtoxml – dump the XML as a file on disk    It works fine so far, but I need to rename some of the XML tags. Lets say that in Uniface I have a field CUSTNR and my XML tag should be CUSTOMERNUMBER. I have read the documentation a couple of times and I now think it is possible with structtoxml/schema. But since I havent used XSD for output before, I am unsure. Am I on the right track? Can somebody explain in plain English what I need to do?

Hi Theo, the simplest solution should be the following :   – retrieve lots of related data in a Uniface service – create a struct using componenttostruct   vStruct->*->CUSTNR->$name = "CUSTOMERNUMBER"   – create XML using structtoxml – dump the XML as a file on disk    Regards Norbert

Thank you Norbert! That is what I was looking for.   I think I have done this before but it slipped too far to the back of my mind

another way.. structtoxml - where-ever you store the raw xml.... for example variables string vs_xml endvariables vs_xml = $replace(vs_xml, 1, "CUSTNR", "CUSTOMERNUMBER", -1) Don't know which one is the fastest one thou Knut

Knut With $replace there is the Risk, that you replace a word that is in a textfield. So you have to use 3 replace Statements : vs_xml = $replace(vs_xml, 1, “<CUSTNR>”, “<CUSTOMERNUMBER>”, -1) vs_xml = $replace(vs_xml, 1, “</CUSTNR>”, “</CUSTOMERNUMBER>”, -1) vs_xml = $replace(vs_xml, 1, “<CUSTNR/>”, “<CUSTOMERNUMBER/>”, -1)   Regards Norbert