In this Lesson we fully explain the XML File Format. We also show How to Create, View, and Edit XML Files with Visual Basic and other Apps such as Notepad and MS-Excel.
We create an XML File of data for Players in a Tennis Dream Team, and edit this data with MS-Excel.
The XML File is also displayed using MS-Edge and Internet Explorer, as well as Dreamweaver, Notepad, MS-Wordpad, and Notepad++.
We show how a simple VB.Net program can be written to fully create the Structure for an XML Data File.
Finally we show how to use Visual Basic to Read in and Display Summary Details for our Tennis Dream Team for which we have created the XML Document File.
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Give these resources to your students and we think you will find that some of them will "get it" very quickly.
The other students need to watch the video for this lesson which goes through everything in full detail slowly step by step with repetition of examples.
The Practical Examples given in our Presentation are converted into VB.Net Programs; however the principles being covered are generic and apply to processing XML Files in any Programming Language.
The Step by Step Guide which is available below for this lesson shows exactly how to create, edit, and display XML Files using detailed practical examples.
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LESSON OVERVIEW
This lesson consists of a Video Presentation where we cover the following:
- Introduction and Learning Objectives
- XML Document File Overview
- XML Files versus CSV Files
- XML Document File Structure
- XML Files Indentation of Lines
- XML Reserved Characters
- Using Windows Notepad for XML Files
- Using Notepad++ for XML Files
- Using Adobe Dreamweaver for XML Files
- MS-Excel and XML Files
- Using MS-Edge for XML Files
- Using Internet Explorer for XML Files
- Using MS-Wordpad for XML Files
- VB Program to Write Out an XML File
- Test Run of the VB XML Write Program
- VB Program to Read XML into Message Boxes
- VB Program to Read XML into List Boxes
- Sample XML Exam Questions
- Further Reading for XML Files
- Preview of Next XML Files Lesson
- Doing our Website Programming Course
- Video Wrap Up and Outro
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