Hello Experts,
I'm new to sending/receiving/parsing XML on .CFM pages. I'm working with a vendor who receiveds my XML data and sends back a confirmation number also via XML to the same .CFM page that I used to send the data. I'm current sending the XML data successfully, but I haven't been successful in receiving/parsing the XML response which contains the confirmation number.
I confirmed with the vendor that their resopnse is being sent to the same page where I'm posting the data. Here is an example of the data that I'm successfully sending:
<cfhttp method="post" url="http://vendor.com/xml
<cfhttpparam type="header" name="Content-Type" value="text/xml" />
<cfhttpparam type="xml" name="xmlDoc" value="
<MESSAGE>
<MESSAGE_CONTENT>
<MESSAGE_INFORMATION>
<BODY>Test XML.</BODY>
</MESSAGE_INFORMATION>
</MESSAGE_CONTENT>
</MESSAGE>
<VERSION>1.0</VERSION>"/>
</cfhttp>
According to the vendor, here is what I'm supposed to expect from them:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<MESSAGE>
<MESSAGE_CONTENT>
<MESSAGE_ID>0</MESSAGE_ID>
<RESPONSE_STATUS>300</RESP
<RESPONSE_ID>1234</RESPONS
</MESSAGE_CONTENT>
<VERSION>1</VERSION>
</MESSAGE>
I'm using Coldfusion MX7 running on Windows 2003 Server. This solution is very important, any help would be greatly appreciated !
Thanks,
Anthony
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dgrafx,
Thanks for your post and I apolagize for my late response. What if I don't know the URL of the XML content as suggested by the following code:
<cfset urlAddress="http://www.mac
Is there a way to have the page "Wait" for incoming XML Data Streams? and Process them as they come?
Regards,
Anthony
So now you're in a hurry ...
<<Is there a way to have the page "Wait" for incoming XML Data Streams>>
any page can run code when it is accessed, but you may be refering to a web service.
look up how to set this up in your cf docs
OR
the answer I posted showed you how to work with xml and coldfusion.
It uses cfhttp as an example only - it is not required that you get you xml from cfhttp.
once you have your xml - the example shows you how to parse it.
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by: dgrafxPosted on 2007-03-05 at 03:27:15ID: 18653631
The following is directly from the cf documentation
It shows you how to parse the xml
just read it over and run it to see how it works - then do the same with your real code.
<!--- Set the URL address. --->
<cfset urlAddress="http://www.mac
<!--- Use the CFHTTP tag to get the file content represented by urladdress.
Note that />, not an end tag, terminates this tag. --->
<cfhttp url="#urladdress#" method="GET" resolveurl="Yes" throwOnError="Yes"/>
<!--- Parse the XML and output a list of resources. --->
<cfset xmlDoc = XmlParse(CFHTTP.FileConten
<!--- Get the array of resource elements, the xmlChildren of the xmlroot. --->
<cfset resources=xmlDoc.xmlroot.x
<cfset numresources=ArrayLen(reso
<cfloop index="i" from="1" to="#numresources#">
<cfset item=resources[i]>
<cfoutput>
<strong><a href=#item.url.xmltext#>#i
<strong>Author</strong>&nb
<strong>Applies to these products</strong><br>
<cfloop index="i" from="4" to="#arraylen(item.xmlChil
#item.xmlChildren[i].xmlAt
</cfloop>
<br>
</cfoutput>
</cfloop>