Comments and answers for "XmlTemplater using Sub Templates with Expressions ?"

Comment by jdh on jdh's comment

jdh — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 17:33:42 GMT

I went through that aggravation back in 2012. Once I figured out what did and did not need commas, it was fairly straightforward. I don't even really notice it these days.

Comment by lifalin2016 on lifalin2016's answer

lifalin2016 — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 08:15:40 GMT

Hi jdh,

You're correct, although it makes no sense to me to add commas. Yesterday I tried to add commas out of sheer desparation, and much to my surprise, it worked.

I would have assumed, that an XML "expression" would be some valid XML snippet (with embedded commands). Commas between tags are not valid XML, so it baffles me why it's implemented as such.

Thanks again.

Cheers

Comment by lifalin2016 on lifalin2016's answer

lifalin2016 — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 08:11:55 GMT

Hi Takashi,

I did read that, but it unfortunately doesn't address my problem.

Cheers

Answer by takashi

takashi — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 03:26:56 GMT

I think this article in Knowledge Base would be a good starting point.

XML Writing with XMLTemplater, esp. Exercise 1.b Basic XML Writing - multi-record

Answer by patrick_koning

patrick_koning — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:30:54 GMT

test.fmw

Hi @lifalin2016,

I included a very small working sample.

I hope this wil help.

Created with FME 2016.1

Answer by david_r

david_r — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 16:46:37 GMT

I seem to remember that the XMLTemplater didn't like XML-style comments, so you might want to try without them to see if that helps.

Answer by jdh

jdh — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 16:34:26 GMT

If you have two unrelated xml fragments you need to separate them with a comma.

For example a subtemplate of

will have no issue, but

will fail.

it needs to be
,