traversing component tree (bom)

anybody got some working code for generating a BOM, I have just realised
that "component.getchidren" does not guarantee the correct component
order. Ihave been messing around with GetFirstFeature / and
GetNextFeature butam running out of time (and patience) seems to be too
many cases and checks to perform. ie component folders, mates, cosmos
entrys all get extracted from the tree.

Just want to read out the assembly components in the correct order!

cheers
nigel

 

Check http://dynabits.com/caddoc/ . It contains a VBA macro that builds an
XML document, from which an HTML document (with a BOM) is generated.
The components are extracted through the features (the only way to list them
in the FM order)
Please report any problem.

 

Logon to the SW Subscription site and peruse the API examples. There
is a bunch of stuff there that is apropos.

 

Does this program work with any other browser besides IE?

 

JRC" wrote:

it's a pity, but MSIE is the only browser which currently supports both
XML/XSTL transformation and embedded SVG graphics. Both are W3C standards,
so you should expect other browsers to support the cadML technology used in
cadDOC in the future.

In the meantime:

for browsers that don't have an XSLT processor, you can check the "generate
html files" option (right, I should then direct the browser to that hmtl
file instead of the xml...)

for browsers that dont' support SVG graphics, I might add an option to
generate the graphs in a different format, but which other vector graphics
supports hyperlinks ? Flash is the only one I can think of, but you'll need
a license to generate flash docs...

 

The Mozilla browser supposedly has an XSLT prossesor, but it obviously
doesn't render the pages from your site correctly.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xslt/

 

"JRC"

you're right, it *should* work with Mozilla...
I have to find out (unless you know) how to make Mozilla display some kind
of error message, since an empty page isn't very useful for debugging...

 

Just want to read out the assembly components in the correct order!

What do you mean by 'correct' ?

 

Sorry, I know very little about XML. I have found that the Adobe svg
viewer 3.x is incompatible with mozilla. You need to use the 6.x svg
viewer instead, which adobe considers to be pre-alpha.