Comments on: Using XML Data in LabVIEW is Hard

By: Jim Kring

Jim Kring — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:42:31 +0000

Wajid: The short answer is “no”, you can’t transform your block diagram into XML.

By: Wajid Gulistan

Wajid Gulistan — Sun, 31 May 2009 08:23:24 +0000

I really liked your article and it is very suitable one, I have a question is there any method through which i can automatically transform my whole block diagram code into XML,

Thanks

Wajid

By: Ton Plomp

Ton Plomp — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:35:13 +0000

Hi Isaac,
that function is from the Internet Toolkit, sold as an addon to LabVIEW by National Instruments.
The toolkit is part of the Professional Development Suite.

Ton

By: Isaac Fayad

Isaac Fayad — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:30:10 +0000

Hello Jim Kring ;
Could you please tell me where could i find the second block in Figure 4 after “xml string” block. I searched in Function Palette and i could not find any thing. I have also the the Internet Toolkit installed on my PC.
thanks

By: angelo trivelli

angelo trivelli — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:29:27 +0000

Whenever I’ve needed to process XML in LabVIEW, I have found the MSXML activeX controls to be effective. There are a bunch of them and you can perform XSLT transformations too.

There are both DOM and SAX based parsers. DOM-based is good for the typical use-cases a labview developer would come across (if XML is relatively small– fits in memory). I haven’t used SAX-based but I bet it works fine.

The other advantage of using MSXML is that you have some degree of portability, exactly the same properties and invocations can be used in a VBA or VB script.

By: WillSmith

WillSmith — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:37:43 +0000

All that is really needed is an XSLT processor option.
XML >- XSLT-> pretty much any kind of output.

By: Jim Kring

Jim Kring — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:18:26 +0000

Hi Everyone: I wanted you all to know that I've posted a follow-up to this article called Using XML Data in LabVIEW Just Got Easier. I hope you enjoy it.

By: James Brunner

James Brunner — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:01:33 +0000

Nice post, Jim. I’m looking forward to the follow-up articles as well.

One of our apps uses XML indirectly via the NI USI library. The TDM file format follows another NI XML schema entirely.

- James

By: Jim Kring

Jim Kring — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:37:55 +0000

akumuaka: Thanks for the feedback. I'm glad you like the article and found it useful. I've got some follow-up topics on XML that I think you'll like, too. Also, I'm interested to hear about how you use XML data in LabVIEW. I've created a poll, here.

By: akamuaka

akamuaka — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:01:31 +0000

Excellent post Jim!
I like your method descriptions and agree with the conclusion as a whole. I wish I had had the benefit of this entry when I tackled my first app using XML in LabVIEW over 5 yrs. ago!