I have a simple xml file (which I create dynamically on the server using ColdFusion's CFFILE write function) that I would like to parse, and then populate form fields with. So far, I've tried using things like xmlParse(), cffile, and cfhttp, and so far, all I get is the meaningless jibberish "coldfusion.xml.XmlNodeLis
This is my XML file: http://area208.ideasdesign
Question: Does this xml file look malformed? What are those little hyphen looking things? Spaces? If so, could those be interfering with the parsing somehow and resulting in the "coldfusion.xml.XmlNodeLis
Assuming that I am going about this all wrong, .. what would be the proper way to do the following:
1) create the xml file on the server using coldfusion
2) parse the xml file on the server using coldfusion
3) populate a web form with the parsed data that was retrieved from the xml file
The specific XML file structure that I need to adhere to is as follows. Thanks!
- Yvan
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ticker>
<topic>
<text><![CDATA[<b>HTML text one</b>]]></text>
<image>icon1.gif</image>
</topic>
<topic>
<text><![CDATA[<b>HTML text two</b>]]></text>
<image>icon2.gif</image>
</topic>
<topic>
<text><![CDATA[<b>HTML text three</b>]]></text>
<image>icon3.gif</image>
</topic>
<topic>
<text><![CDATA[<b>HTML text four</b>]]></text>
<image>icon4.gif</image>
</topic>
<topic>
<text><![CDATA[<b>HTML text five</b>]]></text>
<image>icon5.gif</image>
</topic>
</ticker>
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If you aren't running coldfusion mx 7, you'll need to replace
<cfset xml = XMLParse("http://area208.i
with
<cffile action="read" file="server_path_to_xml" variable="xmlbody" />
<cfset xml = XMLParse(xmlbody) />
The little hyphens you saw just represented the browser's method for displaying an xml file. If you look at the view source, you'll see what coldfusion will be grabbing, which in this case was some well-formatted xml. :)
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by: mkishlinePosted on 2006-01-19 at 07:44:35ID: 15739640
Cast your fears aside. The xml that you are creating is fine, you may have just been going through the xml in a way that coldfusion didn't handle well. Using the url you supplied, you can do something like this (I'm not sure how you're trying to design the form, but you can use the coldfusion variables in my "value" attributes however you like).
<cfset xml = XMLParse("http://area208.i
<cfset topics = XMLSearch(xml,"ticker/topi
<form action="somepage" method="post">
<cfoutput>
<cfloop index="i" from="1" to="#ArrayLen(topics)#">
For topic<input type="text" name="topic#i#" value="#topics[i].xmlchild
</cfloop>
</cfoutput>
</form>