ClientDataSet XML Files

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ClientDataSet XML

Though XML data is by no means universally standardized, the ClinetDataSet/MyBase format is pretty simple to read.
A simple [Members] table like this:
SimpleTable

will look like this after XML export:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<DATAPACKET Version="2.0">

  <METADATA>

    <FIELDS>

      <FIELD attrname="Member-ID" fieldtype="i4"/>

      <FIELD fieldname="First Name" attrname="First_Name" fieldtype="string" WIDTH="15"/>

      <FIELD fieldname="Family Name" attrname="Family_Name" fieldtype="string" WIDTH="25"/>

    </FIELDS>

    <PARAMS/>

  </METADATA>

  <ROWDATA>

    <Row Member-ID="101" First_Name="Eva" Family_Name="Smith"/>

    <Row Member-ID="102" First_Name="Adam" Family_Name="Wright"/>

  </ROWDATA>

</DATAPACKET>

With XML-exported files, characters beyond the ASCII character set are UTF-8 encoded.

See also XML and MS Access.
See also importing ClientDataSet MyBase files

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