XML errors (not sure where going wrong)

callaway92 · 06-07-2019 01:16PM #1

Hi folks

Assistance would be appreciated on the below. I'm currently building a static-data database. The below are three small samples of XMLs.

The first two are fine but the third one I'm having issues with. Any ideas how I can fix it?

Thanks in advance!

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07-07-2019 09:39AM

You've tried to create an element called sport="Professional Wrestling". What you want is an element called sport, and an attribute (called name?) with a value of "Professional Wrestling"

callaway92 · 09-07-2019 10:53AM

Thanks man - Sorry; I'm pretty much working from-scratch, so I'm guessing these queries are beyond basic.

I don't fully understand what I've done wrong in line 4 here.

The end goal is the have the XML elements/attributes all set up, and to have another software that I can input live info into and it populates the XML docs from there.

09-07-2019 11:22AM

You haven't added the closing '>' to your league tags

You should also reconsider the design of your XML structure. You're using attributes to store everything, which has some notable drawbacks. Take [html]<league alias="WWE" name="World Wrestling Entertainment" global-id="1" />[/html]Say you wanted to add a second alias of "WWF": you can't. Attribute names must be unique for a given element. However, if you used an element-based structure, you could do this:[html]<league global-id="1">
<alias>WWE</alias>
<alias>WWF</alias>
<name>World Wrestling Entertainment</name>
</league>[/html]This page has some advice on appropriate usage of elements versus attributes: https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_dtd_attributes.asp

XML errors (not sure where going wrong)

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