API XML Stream and SW (swDocMgr)

Hey crew,

Been doing alot of head banging with the SwDocumentManager of late. Trying
to make an acceptable structured quantified BoM from the XML stream SW gives
you. Just when I think I have cracked the schema there is yet another
wrinkle in it. Example:

<swModel id="6942" swName="9140-00604" swConfigurationName="Default"
swConfigurationId="0" swLastModifiedStamp="117" swConfigurationFlags="384"
swFileRef="6943" swAssemblyFeatureEffectedComponents=""/>
<swModel id="6945" swName="9140-00605" swConfigurationName="Default"
swConfigurationId="0" swLastModifiedStamp="117" swConfigurationFlags="384"
swFileRef="6946" swAssemblyFeatureEffectedComponents=""/>
<swModel id="6950" swName="0190-04220" swConfigurationName="M6 X 45 LNG"
swConfigurationId="695" swLastModifiedStamp="137" swConfigurationFlags="384"
swFileRef="33"/>
<swModel id="6958" swName="0190-04260" swConfigurationName=""
swConfigurationId="-1" swLastModifiedStamp="280" swConfigurationFlags="384"
swFileRef="384"/>

9140-00605 is an assembly, beats me what reports to it based on the stream.
Anyone have any tools they have devised to successfully parse the SW XML
stream into say a tab delimited indented BOM? Tips freely accepted!

XML is actually easy but this is getting really old.


TIA

 

Are you using VB.NET? or VBA with the newer office versions?

It's all actually trivial to load the XML file into a DataSet/
DataTable and then you can do anything you want... SQL, Excel,
HTML. pdf... you name it and you can convert the DataSet/
DataTable...

With regards,

Vinodh Kumar M.
www.swCP3.com

 

Any code examples available how to use SWDocumentManager?

 

The SwDocMgr API help file has some very nice examples of use. Need a copy?

Guy

 

Hello Guy-

"The SwDocMgr API help file has some very nice examples of use." Where is
this located? I can't find it.

Best Regards,
Devon T. Sowell
www.3-ddesignsolutions.com