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G. Tarazi
Currently the only easy way to modify data inside that product is using the "Select Single Node" method and an XPath command inside it.
The idea looks cool, true XML/XSL/XPATH implementation, but is XPath fast or productive?
Having XPATH is nice, but not for accessing simple fields, we are using C# with IP2003SP1, and if the schema is updated during the development, the compiler will not tell us the InfoPath XPATH error, because it can't find any, the XPATH is just a string in the select single node method.
But with data sets in a normal C# project, just a small change on the schema and the compiler is there immediately to catch the errors, before ever ruining the code.
Maybe after all XPATH is not that cool ;-)
Can we have a typed data set or something similar to it + the XPATH in the future releases of InfoPath? This will defiantly reduce the developers time, starting from coding (the developers do not need to remember the name of each node, just press the dot and a list will show), passing thorough compiling and unit testing, ending to the final QA testing, it will just save time every ware.
Thank You
The idea looks cool, true XML/XSL/XPATH implementation, but is XPath fast or productive?
Having XPATH is nice, but not for accessing simple fields, we are using C# with IP2003SP1, and if the schema is updated during the development, the compiler will not tell us the InfoPath XPATH error, because it can't find any, the XPATH is just a string in the select single node method.
But with data sets in a normal C# project, just a small change on the schema and the compiler is there immediately to catch the errors, before ever ruining the code.
Maybe after all XPATH is not that cool ;-)
Can we have a typed data set or something similar to it + the XPATH in the future releases of InfoPath? This will defiantly reduce the developers time, starting from coding (the developers do not need to remember the name of each node, just press the dot and a list will show), passing thorough compiling and unit testing, ending to the final QA testing, it will just save time every ware.
Thank You