Just a product plug...

Visual Perl 1.5 now provides code-completion for objects loaded
via the Win32::OLE interface.  I found with the sample code I 
got drop downs for properties and methods off $xmlDoc.

This should make translating the MSDN docs into Perl calls easier.

- Eric Promislow
EricP@[...].com

On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 09:09:16PM -0700, Rick Brannan wrote:
>  Hi Craig.
>  
>  Through the magic of Win32::OLE you can use MSXML today, VisualPerl or
>  not. For instance, here's a quickie to validate an XML document using
>  MSXML. Yes, I probably should test it, but I didn't -- I just stole it
>  from some existing code and changed some values.
>  
>  -----------------
>  use strict;
>  use warnings;
>  use Win32::OLE;
>  my $file = "test.xml"
>  my $xmlDoc = Win32::OLE->new("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
>  $xmlDoc->{async} = 0;
>  $xmlDoc->{validateOnParse} = -1 # 0 = parse, -1 = validate
>  $xmlDoc->load($file);
>  
>  if($xmlDoc->{parseError}->{errorcode} == 0)
>  	{
>  	print "OK -- Document is valid!\n";
>  	}
>  else
>  	{
>  	print "ERROR in line ".$xmlDoc->{parseError}->{line}.",
>  	errorcode ".$xmlDoc->{parseError}->{errorcode}."\n";
>  	print $xmlDoc->{parseError}->{reason};
>  	}
>  -----------------
>  
>  The team I work with uses Perl and MSXML to hack at XML (and shove stuff
>  through XSLT, and play with XPATH, and all sorts of fun stuff) quite
>  frequently. Once you access the object, the docs on MSDN (with a little
>  extra effort to translate them to a Perl syntax) are quite helpful in
>  figuring out what you can do.
>  
>  Hope it helps.
>  
>  --------------------------------------------
>  Rick Brannan - rick (at) libronix (dot) com
>  "Light reading ... may amuse for the moment,
>   but leaves nothing behind."
>                          -- George Washington
>  
>  
>  
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Craig Dayton [mailto:cadayton@[...].net] 
>  Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 7:22 PM
>  To: visualperl-discuss@[...].com
>  Subject: [Visualperl-discuss] visualperl App using MSXML 4.0?
>  
>  
>  How feasible is it to consider building a visualperl application using
>  MSXML 4.0?
>  
>  The main criteria making the MSXML 4.0 parser a must is its support of
>  W3C XMLSchema spec.
>  
>  Any idea why XML::LibXML and other parser packages are shying away from
>  the W3C XMLSchema spec?
>  
>  Thanks, Craig 
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