Uploading Grid Data in XML Format

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Uploading Grid Data in XML Format

Grid Publisher accepts XML files that comply with the simplified XML schema definition shown in this section. Some tag attributes exist only for backwards compatibility with older grid implementations.

XML declaration

The XML declaration must be as shown:

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

<SP> Tag

Provide one <SP> tag that contains one or more <ROW> tags.

<SP app-type="publish-grid" row-count="6" column-count="4" key-list="KEY">

    <ROW></ROW>

</SP>

`app-type`	String	Must be "`publish-grid`" as shown.
`row-count`	Integer	The number of rows in the grid. (There is no column header row in an XML grid file.)
`column-count`	Integer	The number of columns in the grid.
`key-list`	String	The name of the key value column.

<ROW> Tag

Provide a <ROW> tag for each key value (row of data) in the grid. Each <ROW> tag contains two or more <column-name> tags, one of which is the key column.

<ROW rownum="1" KEY-1="001" KEY-1-COLUMN="KEY">

 <column-name></column-name>

</ROW>

`rownum`	Integer	The ordinal number of the row, counting from one.
`KEY-1`	String	The value of the key value column.
`KEY-1-COLUMN`	String	The name of the key value column.

<column-name> Tag

Within each <ROW> tag, provide a <column-name> tag for each column in the grid.

<column-name>value</column-name>

value

String

The key value (first tag only) or the value to substitute for the symbol at mailing time.

The name of the first <column-name> tag can be any alphanumeric string but must match the KEY-1-COLUMN attribute of the <ROW> tag.
The value of the first <column-name> tag must match the KEY-1 attribute of the <ROW> tag.

Example

This example uses the same data as the example in Uploading Grid Data in Text Format.