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Re: Getting structure of a repeating table

blackhawk — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:44:18 GMT

Sorry for the long delay in responding...but that worked most excellently. I didn't even think about that until you brough it up. Kind of one of those DOH! moments.

Thank you!!

Re: Getting structure of a repeating table

Jimmy — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:07:37 GMT

You can load up the template's sampledata XML file with the following code. That should contain everything you need to figure out the structure you're looking for:

IXMLDOMDocument doc = thisXDocument.CreateDOM();
doc.load("sampledata.xml");

Getting structure of a repeating table

blackhawk — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:45:37 GMT

Is there a way to get the structure of a repeating group element programmatically in IP2003?

Here is what I am trying to do:

I have a secondary (or sometimes a primary) data source driven by a web service. There are times when the web service returns no data due to the input parameters, however I need to be able to add a node and it's children to it, but because there is no data to use as a template, I cannot programmatically add one using the data source. Is there a way to get to the schema and look up the information to create a new node (and it's children)?

I am using the 2003 OM.

Example:

Sample of what InfoPath sees:

<MyData>
....<Row> (repeating)
........<Col1 />
........<Col2 />
........<Col3 />
....</Row>
</MyData>

I don't know in advance what this structure is, so I cannot assume anything about the data source. I would like to read the XSD document in some way to extract the information and then add a new Row element and the subsequent column elements.

Is this possible?