Re: [xml] "Proper" way to use XML (not library specific)

[Rush Manbert <rush manbert com>]

Will Sappington wrote:
<snip>
> To address some of the questions raised about how the Profile will be
> used, the use case here is quite simple.  The profile is read-only,
> there will never be a reason for the application to modify its own
> configuration.  The application opens the profile once at
> initialization, reads its config parameters, which may be a small subset
> of the total depending on how many applications it contains, and
> discards the profile.  The queries themselves are quite simple, just
> "gimme the value that matches this application/section/item ID".  
<snip again>

Well, it does seem sort of silly to roll your own classes if this is all 
you need to do. Just wrap it in a class with a good interface and you're 
good to go.

I think your original post mentioned some difficulty due to 
unfamiliarity with XPath. Here's a very good tutorial site that helped 
me learn to use XSLT:
http://www.zvon.org/index.php?nav_id=tutorials&mime=html

Best regards,
Rush