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What is the worst XML Structure you have come upon?

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smdavies99

Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 11:26 pm Post subject: What is the worst XML Structure you have come upon?

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Joined: 10 Feb 2003
Posts: 6076
Location: Somewhere over the Rainbow this side of Never-never land.

Ok, lets have a little discussion on this.

One of my customers has just issued a change request to change the output structure from this

Code:

<data>
<Item>
<ItemName>Saucerful</ItemName>
<Qty>21</Qty>
</Item>
<Item>
<ItemName>Atom</ItemName>
<Qty>15</Qty>
</Item>
<Item>
<ItemName>DSOTM</ItemName>
<Qty>1</Qty>
</Item>
</data>

to what can only be described as JSONified XML

Code:

And yest, they are still insisting that is it validated against a schema before I send it to them.
given that the number and names of the XML Tags are variable I really don't think that I can do a validation.
The changes are very simple to do but the validation requirement is going to lead me to reject the CR for that reason alone.

So, lets have examples (obfuscated naturally) that have left you scratching your head in <add your reason here>

{for some reason the [C O D E] tags don't seem to be working}
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mqjeff

Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 5:08 am Post subject:

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Joined: 25 Jun 2008
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I'll leave you to adjust your [ c o d e ] tags appropriately ...

There was quite a while when it was fashionable to create xml like

Code:

<document><root><record><element name="saucerful" value="21"/><element name="Atom" value="15"/> ... etc...

because of some weird java mapping standard or sommat other terrible idea.
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stoney

Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 8:54 am Post subject:

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Joined: 03 Apr 2013
Posts: 140

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<json:object xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.datapower.com/schemas/json jsonx.xsd"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:json="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/2009/jsonx">
<json:string name="name">John Smith</json:string>
<json:object name="address">
<json:string name="streetAddress">21 2nd Street</json:string>
<json:string name="city">New York</json:string>
<json:string name="state">NY</json:string>
<json:number name="postalCode">10021</json:number>
</json:object>
<json:array name="phoneNumbers">
<json:string>212 555-1111</json:string>
<json:string>212 555-2222</json:string>
</json:array>
<json:null name="additionalInfo" />
<json:boolean name="remote">false</json:boolean>
<json:number name="height">62.4</json:number>
<json:string name="ficoScore"> > 640</json:string>
</json:object>

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