Can u help.
I have multiple RSS feeds I need to parse ... but each RSS feed has a slightly different XML layout and I - frankly - have no idea how best to tackle the stripping / parsing into a consolidated / standard loop!?
these rss feeds, for example;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
- has this variable when XMLparsed using CF;
: rdf:RDF.item[i].title
http://michellemalkin.com/
- has this variable when XMLparsed using CF;
: rss.channel.item[i].title
Is there a way to call the 'item[i].title' part of each parsed XML variable ... as a standard call without having to hard code each RSS feed's unique XML structure individually? You see ... the RSS feed URLS are fed dynamically from my web site ... and hardcoding would be impossible.
Thanks!
R
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Thanks. BUT ... problem - when I use xmlsearch ... the multiple rss.channel.item[i].title values ... aren't placed into an array. ..
instead ... the multiple sub components of item[i] are sequentially listed; ..
i.e. item[1].xmltext = title
i.e. item[2].xmltext = description
i.e. item[3].xmltext = text
etc
instead ... i need ...
item[1].title.xmltext
item[2].title.xmltext
item[3].title.xmltext
make sense!?
Richard
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by: PluckaPosted on 2006-02-09 at 19:32:52ID: 15919222
rcbuchanan,
Use XmlSearch which is CF's version of XPath, search for XPath queries to assist you.
<cfset myXml = XmlParse(xmlVariable) />
<cfset nodes = xmlSearch(configXml, "//items/*") />
<cfdump var="#nodes#" />
This should return all items from your xml.
Regards
Plucka