Manipulating and transforming XML documents
XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML) and is designed to represent, transport, and store hierarchical data in trees of nodes. You can use XML to communicate with different systems to store configuration files, complex entities, and so on. All of these use a standard and powerful format. Delphi has had good support for XML for more than a decade now.
Getting ready
All the basic XML-related activities can be summarized with the following points:
- Generating XML data
- Parsing XML data
- Parsing XML data and modifying it
In this recipe, we will see how to do all these activities.
How to do it…
- Create a new VCL application and drop three TButton and a TMemo. Align all the buttons ...
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