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How make xml Condition List more compact

I'm trying to cut down on my xml so that it's more short/compact, as requested by my team.

The format below winds up being about 1000 lines long with all my build processes, but I'm pretty sure there's a way to make it more compact. Is there a way to shorten the Condition or SuccessCriteria tag so that I use attributes like the surrounding xml? I need to account for cases with multiple conditions or SuccessCriteria, as shown below. From my search, same attribute pairs multiple times, it doesn't look like I can have attributes with the same name, which this would be if I do something similar to what I have in the top of the process tag.

I need the Condition name/value to always be called that because I'm using LINQ to read the xml and those conditions and success criteria get put in a list that I iterate through. Plus sometimes I have 1 condition pair, but sometimes it's 2, and in the future it could be 3. Similarly with SuccessCriteria.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<BuildVerficationRoot>
<Configuration>
    <Value Name="emailFrom">SCM-BuildCoordinator@co.com</Value>
    <Value Name="admin_list">me@co.com</Value> 
    <Value Name="verboseLogFileName">VerifyBuildVerbose.txt</Value>
    <Value Name="statsLogProcessVerFileName">ProcessStatusVerificationStats.txt</Value>
    <Value Name="project">proj</Value>
    <Value Name="version">1.0</Value>
</Configuration>
<BuildVerification>
    <codeFreezeTime>19:00</codeFreezeTime>
    <build machine="mach-1">
            <Process name="Proc1"
                startTimeHeader="StartTime"
                endTimeHeader="EndTime"
                failureColumns="ErrorDescription">
                    <Condition
                        name='VersionFile' value="\view\proj\filename1.cs">
                    </Condition>
                    <Condition
                        name='VersionFile' value="\view\proj\filename2.cs">
                    </Condition>
                    <SuccessCriteria>
                        <field>Status</field>
                        <comparison>equal</comparison> 
                        <value>Success</value>
                    </SuccessCriteria>
            </Process>
</build>
<build machine="co.net\share\folder\folder2\">
            <Process name="Stats1"
                startTimeHeader="Time"
                endTimeHeader="Time"
                failureColumns="">
                    <Condition
                            name='VersionId' value="1.0">
                    </Condition>
                    <Condition
                        name='MediaType' value="Incr">
                    </Condition>
                    <SuccessCriteria>
                        <field>Status</field>
                        <comparison>equal</comparison> 
                        <value>Success</value>
                    </SuccessCriteria>
            </Process>
            <Process name="MediaStats"
                startTimeHeader="EndTime"
                endTimeHeader="EndTime"
                failureColumns="">
                        <Condition
                            name1='Ver1' name2="Ver2">
                        </Condition>
                    <SuccessCriteria>
                        <field>MediaType</field>
                        <comparison>equal</comparison> 
                        <value>Full</value>
                    </SuccessCriteria>
            </Process>
            <Process name="MediaStats"
                startTimeHeader="EndTime"
                endTimeHeader="EndTime"
                failureColumns="">
                        <Condition
                            name1='Ver1' name2="Ver2">
                        </Condition>
                    <SuccessCriteria>
                        <field>MediaType</field>
                        <comparison>equal</comparison> 
                        <value>Incr</value>
                    </SuccessCriteria>
            </Process>
            <Process name="ProcessingStats"
                startTimeHeader="StartTime"
                endTimeHeader="EndTime"
                failureColumns="">
                    <Condition
                        name='Project' value="1.0">
                    </Condition>
                    <SuccessCriteria>
                        <field>Deliverables</field>
                        <comparison>notEqual</comparison>
                        <value>""</value>
                    </SuccessCriteria>
                    <SuccessCriteria>
                        <field>InInstallers</field>
                        <comparison>notEqual</comparison>
                        <value>""</value>
                    </SuccessCriteria>
                    <SuccessCriteria>
                        <field>MakePackage</field>
                        <comparison>notEqual</comparison>
                        <value>""</value>
                    </SuccessCriteria>
                    <SuccessCriteria>
                        <field>Publish</field>
                        <comparison>notEqual</comparison>
                        <value>""</value>
                    </SuccessCriteria>
                        
            </Process>
        </build>
        
</BuildVerification>
</BuildVerficationRoot>

I tried doing the following with the first Process, but get error:

c# System.Xml>XmlException: "name" is a duplicate attribute name.

<Process name="SpinFileVersionStats"
                startTimeHeader="StartTime"
                endTimeHeader="EndTime"
                failureColumns="ErrorDescription">
                    <Condition name='VersionFile' value="\view\proj\filename1.cs"
                               name='VersionFile2' value="\view\proj\filename2.cs"></Condition>
                    <SuccessCriteria>
                        <field>Status</field>
                        <comparison>equal</comparison> 
                        <value>Success</value>
                    </SuccessCriteria>
    </Process>

So my question is, is there a more compact way to show the same info in xml? I'm not talking about removing carriage returns around the Condition tags. Thanks!

Solution

  • XML attribute names must be unique per element in well-formed XML.

    You can make your XML more compact and consistent by adjusting the element vs attribute design:

    <Process name="Proc1"
         startTimeHeader="StartTime"
         endTimeHeader="EndTime"
         failureColumns="ErrorDescription">
  <Condition versionFile="\view\proj\filename1.cs"/>
  <Condition versionFile="\view\proj\filename2.cs"/>
  <SuccessCriteria field="Status"
                   comparison="equal"
                   value="Success"/>
</Process>

    This design