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<form version="1.0">

   <form>

      <templatedetail>

         <templatename>Job Application</templatename>

         <templateid>1</templateid>

         <templatecreated>15 May 2005 13:00</templatecreated>

         <templateownerid>1</templateownerid>

         <templateownername>Form Creator</templateownername>

         <formownerid>1</formownerid>

         <formownername>Some User</formownername>

         <actionbyid>2</actionbyid>

         <actionbyname>Some other user</actionbyname>

         <whenactioned>16 May 2005 13:00</whenactioned>

      </templatedetail>

      <formdetail id="1">

         <datalist>

            <data>

               <key>16 digits unique key</key>

               <value>Ethuongmai</value>

               <name>First Name</name>

               <type>String</type>

            </data>

            <data>

               <key>16 digits unique key</key>

               <value>16 May 2005</value>

               <name>Leave Date</name>

               <type>Date</type>

            </data>

            <data>

               <key>16 digits unique key</key>

               <value>15</value>

               <name>Number of Days</name>

               <type>Numeric</type>

            </data>

            <data>

               <key>16 digits unique key</key>

               <value>I want a long holiday after a year of hard work</value>

               <name>Reason</name>

               <type>FreeText</type>

            </data>

            <data>

               <key>16 digits unique key</key>

               <value>UTF8 Encoded data</value>

               <name>Attachment</name>

               <type>File</type>

            </data>

         </datalist>

      </formdetail>

   </form>

</form>

 

 

The following contain sample C# code segment to save the posted XML file from an external application. The same principal can be used to processed the data contained in the XML file.

 

 

         //saves the file

         try

         {

            if (Request.Files.Count > 0)

            {

               Request.Files[0].SaveAs(Server.MapPath(this.TemplateSourceDirectory) + "\\" + Request.Files[0].FileName);

            }

         }

         catch(Exception ex)

         {

            Response.Write(ex.ToString());

         }