posted 22 years ago
Hari,
Thanks for the reply. One thing that I didn't make very clear is that FONTFACE, FONTSIZE, XPOS, etc. are nodes that are common for several data items that are not shown in my example, not just the MESSAGES nodes. The entire XML configuration file is pretty big, but here are a few more nodes in addition to the MESSAGES section:
What I'd like to do is access this data by the high level node name, such as SHIPPERNAME, then pick out these common fields and store them in a structure (an inner class.) Right now, I'm retrieving the values with multiple calls to my 'getVal' method, like this:
..and so on. But what I'd rather do is create some sort of a method call that would interrogate all the nodes within the '/MAINPAGEOVERLAY/SHIPPERNAME', looking for the named values of FONTFACE, FONTSIZE, etc., storing them within a structure:
My imaginary method signature (that I can't figure out how to write):
I would then use the values from the returned printPosition object. And as I alluded to in the previous message, the high level node, such as MESSAGES, could contain lower level nodes such as MESSAGE. But at some point when the lowest level has been reached, the common attributes of FONT and XPOS would be found.
This is all pretty complicated, and I apologize if I'm not being very clear on this. As always, I sincerely appreciate the help.
Rick <><