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chrisamp
xml
Aug 20th, 2007, 8:29pm  
hi,

I am new to this so excuse my nubieness..

I would like to know how to select a random element from an xml file then display it using text()

Also..to avoid displaying the same element twice until all elements have been displayed once.

I have read and tried the XMLElement Class examples..but no luck.

thank you for your help!

Chris.
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koogy
Re: xml
Reply #1 - Aug 22nd, 2007, 5:46pm  
read them all into a string array, shuffle them (Knuth shuffle? java.util.Collections.shuffle()?), display them sequentially. at end of array reshuffle them and start again?

requires the text fragments to be in memory all the time which could be a problem if there are a lot of them. maybe store a reference only and use that to reparse the xml before display.
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