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Rafay
Rafay

Reputation: 31033

resource xml file

i have been given a task to make a resource xml file for the static content of our website so that we can look-up for the content in that xml file against a particular id and display it. For example if we have written "Welcome to xyz.com" on our home page it should be stored in the xml file like

<word>
  <add Key="welcome" value="Welcome to xyz.com" />
</word>

<word>
  <add key="key1" value="some other static content" />
</word>

so we will be able to display the text by id="welcome"... plz help.

accessing the resource file as 

string key = "Home";
             string resourceValue = string.Empty;
             string resourceFile = "Resource";//name of my resource file Resource.resx

             string filePath =System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory.ToString();

             ResourceManager resourceManager = ResourceManager.CreateFileBasedResourceManager(resourceFile, filePath, null);


             resourceValue = resourceManager.GetString(key);

and getting the following error

Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture (or the neutral culture) on disk.
baseName: Resource  locationInfo: <null>  fileName: Resource.resources

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1704

Answers (1)

Anthony Leotta
Anthony Leotta

Reputation: 84

Try an XML format like this:

<Page Id="Home">
    <Elements>
        <Element Id="welcome">
            <Value>Welcome to xyz.com</Value>
        </Element>

        <Element Id="key1">
            <Value>some other static content</Value>
        </Element>      
    </Elements>
</Page>

Why? My first thought is that each page needs it own id. So I have shown a page called "Home" with two Elements. Also by using tags rather than attributes sou can use CDATA sections [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDATA] in case you have characters that need to be escaped. Otherwise you'll have to transform <,>,& and that gets ugly.

<Element Id="key1">
    <Value><![CDATA[some other static content with < > in it!]]></Value>
</Element>

Or how about it you want to include a div? with a class?

<Element Id="key1">
    <Value><![CDATA[<div class="wrapper">some other static content with in it!</div>]]></Value>
</Element>

It's better.

In general, I use tags more than attributes. It's easier to find tags using XPath.

Upvotes: 3

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