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 the trees of nodes. You can use XML to communicate with different systems, and store configuration files, complex entities, and so on. They all 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:
- Generate XML data
- Parse XML data
- Parse XML data and modify it
In this recipe, you will see how to carry out 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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