C# 5.0 Programmer's Reference

560 ❘ CHAPTER 24 XML
Shade
... Other Plant elements omitted ...
Follow these steps to prepare to generate random plant names.
a. Place a TextBox on the form so that the user can enter the number of Plant elements
to create.
b. Place a multiline TextBox on the form. Fill it with a few hundred words from
www.lipsum.com/feed/html.
c. Get the text from the TextBox and convert it to lowercase.
d. Use regular expressions to remove periods and commas from the text.
e. Use string.Split to split the text into words using spaces, \r, and \n as word
separators, removing empty entries.
The following code shows two methods you can use to create random plant names and
light values.
// Return a random name.
private Random Rand = new Random();
private string RandomName(string[] words)
{
return
words[Rand.Next(0, words.Length)] + " " +
words[Rand.Next(0, words.Length)] + " " +
words[Rand.Next(0, words.Length)];
}
// Return a random light value.
private string RandomLight()
{
string[] values =
{
"Shade", "Partial Shade", "Partial Sun", "Full Sun"
};
return values[Rand.Next(0, values.Length)];
}
The program should pass the array of words it built during preparation into the RandomName
method.
2. Modify the program you wrote for Exercise 1 so that it uses the DOM instead of an
XmlTextWriter. Which version of the program do you prefer Are there situations in which
one would be better than the other
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