Comments on: Using XML Data in LabVIEW Just Got Easier

By: Jim Kring

Jim Kring — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:38:58 +0000

Silvester: We don’t have a release date for the XML to LabVIEW data structure converter. But, we’ve been getting a lot of requests for it and it’s definitely on our roadmap.

By: Silvester

Silvester — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:07:37 +0000

Hi Jim,
in this thread, you talk about an XML to LabVIEW data structure converter.
I think this means, that the Class-Structure hasn’t to be created by hand. So changes in the XML-Structure result in changes of the Labview data structure.

Do you have a rough release date for this feature?

Silvester.

By: Jim Kring

Jim Kring — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:19:51 +0000

Isaac: The second block is part of the EasyXML Toolkit for LabVIEW, a commercial add-on from JKI.

By: Isaac Fayad

Isaac Fayad — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:31:09 +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: Jim Kring

Jim Kring — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:36:19 +0000

Hi Evan, Thanks for the feedback. Yes, an XML to LabVIEW data structure converter would be great. It’s on our roadmap for a future version. Beyond that, I can’t make any promises. Cheers.

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:28:13 +0000

Jim, it appears as though your EasyXML kit was released around a year ago? I saw some mention in the comments of this posting that you were toying with the idea of building a tool to convert from XML to LV Data Structures.

I am also interested in this. There is a good chance that I will use LabVIEW for an upcoming event recorder. The catch is that all events are written in a specific XML schema. There is a 200 page document, and a 200 line XSD file (https://pslcdatashop.web.cmu.edu/dtd/).

It would be nice if there was a simple tool to parse the XSD file and create a set of clusters. Then I would be much more inclined to obtain your EasyXML kit. The pain for me is that I may need to manually (read: with errors) create the data types.

Cheers,

Evan

By: Matthias

Matthias — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:44:19 +0000

Hi Jim: thank you for the prompt and straightforward answer. After more searching I finally found that LabVIEW 8.6 presumably offers flattening classes to XML-string. (zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361E-01/lvconcepts/using_classes/). So far I am using LV8.5 which does only allow the flattening objects to string function (which is not really useful for editing outside LV).

By: Jim Kring

Jim Kring — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:41:05 +0000

Hi Matthias: EasyXML does not currently support LVOOP object data. However, it might someday

By: Matthias

Matthias — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:24:14 +0000

I was actually searching for a way to save and read the data of LVOOP objects to a text file, that can be edited with a simple editor. Basically it is meant as a settings file to initialize my objects. I cannot easily download with VIPM with our firewall, so could you please answer my question: can this tool also handle object clusters? Or is there any other way to do it?

By: Jim Kring

Jim Kring — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:08:39 +0000

John: EasyXML works on LabVIEW 7.1 or greater. You can find all of the system requirements here: http://jkisoft.com/easyxml/requirements/.