I have about thirteen configuration files that are written in XML. I need to
be able to read and cross reference these files with each other. I have
already written an xsl translator but due to the large size of the file it is
very slow. I have also been unable to access some of the relationships
contained in the document when using xsl. What would be the easiest way to
do this using visual C#? Below is a brief sample from one of the files.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<vpmapp>
- <conditionObjects>
<vpm-cat />
<dny-exc a="false" e="" f="false" m="" name="" p="userdefined" />
- <categorylist name="">
<aitem a="sf101" n="" />
<aitem a="sf102" n="" />
<aitem a="sf104" n="" />
</categorylist>
<ipobject name="Clnt IP Address/Subnet3" single="true" type="1" value=""
/>
<ipobject name="SourceIP120" single="true" type="1" value="" />
- <comb-obj d="" n-1="false" n-2="false" name="" t="1">
<c-l-1 n="SourceIP151" />
<c-l-1 n="SourceIP147" />
<c-l-1 n="SourceIP6" />
<c-l-1 n="SourceIP5" />
<c-l-1 n="SourceIP51" />
<c-l-1 n="SourceIP50" />
<c-l-1 n="SourceIP49" />
<c-l-1 n="SourceIP36" />
<c-l-1 n="SourceIP34" />
<c-l-1 n="SourceIP33" />
<c-l-1 n="SourceIP21" />
<c-l-1 n="SourceIP186" />
<c-l-1 n="SourceIP187" />
<c-l-1 n="Clnt IP Address/Subnet3" />
<c-l-1 n="SourceIP120" />
</comb-obj>
<a-url d="" name="URL199" />
<a-url d="" name="URL198" />
<a-url d="" name="URL197" />
<a-url d="" name="URL196" />
<a-url d="" name="URL195" />
<a-url d="" name="URL194" />
<a-url d="" name="URL193" />
<a-url d="" name="URL192" />
<a-url d="" name="URL191" />
<a-url d="" name="URL190" />
<ipobject name="SourceIP99" single="true" type="1" value="" />
<ipobject name="SourceIP98" single="true" type="1" value="" />
<ipobject name="SourceIP97" single="true" type="1" value="" />
<ipobject name="SourceIP96" single="true" type="1" value="" />
<ipobject name="SourceIP95" single="true" type="1" value="" />
- <file-download allow-mime-types="false" name="">
<file-type-info file-extension="" mime-type=""
use-file-extension="true" use-mime-type="false" />
<file-type-info file-extension="" mime-type=""
use-file-extension="true" use-mime-type="false" />
</file-download>
<group delimiters="\!!" group-base="" group-location="" group-prefix=""
group-suffix="" name="" realm-name="" realm-type="4" restrict="" suffix=""
user="false" />
<protocol name="__PROTO_1" subtype="all-im" t="https" />
<group delimiters="\!!" group-base="" group-location="" group-prefix=""
group-suffix="" name="USER44" realm-name="webaccess" realm-type="4"
restrict="false" suffix="false" user="true" />
<group delimiters="\!!" group-base="" group-location="" group-prefix=""
group-suffix="" name="USER45" realm-name="webaccess" realm-type="4"
restrict="false" suffix="false" user="true" />
<group delimiters="\!!" group-base="" group-location="" group-prefix=""
group-suffix="" name="GROUP2" realm-name="webaccess" realm-type="4"
restrict="false" suffix="false" user="false" />
<proxy ip-address="" name="" port="-1" />
<dny-exc a="false" e="user-defined.policy_dend" f="false" m=""
name="LocalPolicyDeny" p="userdefined" />
- <user-agent-list name="">
<user-agent-item description="" name="" user-agent-regex="" />
<user-agent-item description="" name="" user-agent-regex="" />
</user-agent-list>
<adm-auth-obj f="false" name="" r-n="" />
</conditionObjects>
- <layers>
- <layer layertype="">
<name></name>
<numRows>2</numRows>
- <rowItem enabled="true" num="0">
<colItem col="0" value="1" />
<colItem col="1" name="USER14" negate="false" type="Condition" />
<colItem col="2" name="Allow Read-only Access" negate="false"
type="Condition" />
<colItem col="4" name="None" type="String" />
<colItem col="3" name="" type="String" />
</rowItem>
- <rowItem enabled="true" num="1">
<colItem col="0" value="2" />
<colItem col="1" name="USER15" negate="false" type="Condition" />
<colItem col="2" name="Allow Read-only Access" negate="false"
type="Condition" />
<colItem col="4" name="None" type="String" />
<colItem col="3" name="" type="String" />
</rowItem>
</layer>
</layers>
</vpmapp>

What do you mean when you say you need to cross reference these files. Do
you just need to compare node values across different XML documents? or do
you want to enforce some identity constraints?

Zafar
"ccole" <ccole (AT) discussions (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote

I need to be able to compare node values to validate that all machines are
configured the same.

"Zafar Abbas" wrote:

If you want to diff the xml files, you can take a look at the XML Diff tool
at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/XML/XMLDownloads/default.aspx

Or you can use XmlReader API to read the xml files in a streaming fashion
and compare them in code.

Thanks,
Priya

"ccole" <ccole (AT) discussions (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote