Ramona schrieb:
> i have a XML file with nested tags like
> 
> <category name="nature" id=12344" Starttime="12.00" date="11122007">
> <event name="water" id="12233" >
> <eventtype name="seawater" amount="23%">
> <type name="salt" content="3233"/>
> <type name="salt" content="3233"/>
> <type name="salt" content="3233"/>
> </eventtype>
> </event>
> 
> <event name="water" id="12233" >
> <eventtype name="seawater" amount="23%">
> <type name="salt" content="3233"/>
> <type name="salt" content="3233"/>
> <type name="salt" content="3233"/>
> </eventtype>
> </event>
> 
> <event name="water" id="12233" >
> <eventtype name="seawater" amount="23%">
> <type name="salt" content="3233"/>
> <type name="salt" content="3233"/>
> <type name="salt" content="3233"/>
> </eventtype>
> </event>
> </category>
> 
> How do i parse these contents to get them in grid format and save it
> to database.
> is there any way to achieve this
> can anyone give idea like how to start with
> am new to use XML data
> so plz help me on this regard
Depending on your platform and programming language there are several parsers
available that can read such files.
For instance, for Windows and VB/JSCript there is Microsofts MSXML, for Tcl/Tk
there is TclDOM, for perl there surely are packages too, all of them
(including MSXML) being free.
Personally, on Windows I'd go for VB/JScript and MSXML unless there are so 
many events that even a simple loop in VBScript becomes an issue. Then I'd
switch to visual basic or visual C++. (In that case .NET will probably be too 
slow too, being half as fast as native C++ according to microsoft.)

Lots of Greetings!
Volker
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