Recently in a Java project that I’m currently working on it was necessary to read remote XML data. Since my Java skills aren’t too strong and that I’ve never used Java and XML together I hit the road to search for help. I quickly found some articles and tutorials about dealing with XML within Java. […]

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XML Generator DIR is an XML generator that will make a lot easier for you to create XML configuration files. It is focused in the creation of configuration files for image galleries, music players and for any other stuff where you need to list all files in a directory in a simple way. This script uses […]

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Here is a new flavor of the XML Generator, called XML Generator DB. This version builds XML files based on records from a database table instead of files in a directory. I was thinking about embedding this functionality into the original script (now called XML Generator DIR to follow the name pattern) but it would add […]

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Update: I have updated and fixed some minor functionalities of this script and also changed its name to XML Generator DIR to differentiate from the new flavor XML Generator DB. Although the usage still the same you should check the new post instead. So here it is! The 2nd version of the XML generator that will […]

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Although this version may be an interesting study, you should check the new version instead. XML Generator 2.0 is easier and more powerful than the version presented in this post. Check it by clicking here. This morning a friend of mine came to me asking for a script to automatically generate an XML config file. He […]

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Recently I was using the SimpleXML extension from PHP5 to build a menu based on information contained in an XML file. I was using XPath queries to retrieve specific nodes from the XML tree and the var_dump() and print_r() functions to debug the results. I thought my XPath queries were all wrong because the output data […]

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