Generating xml for iTunes

Thank you tampa :)

rollerskatie,


The following parses ok. I changed a few things and the output was fine.

ended the category with "/ >" and removed the "</itunes:category>".

Since I did not have your DB, I removed the pounds and ran it with the text. I suggest you run it as is, then start line by line from the database. I would suggest you wrap everything with the XMLFormat().

The following was tested on CF7 with success:

<!--- error handler --->
<cftry>
<!--- removes all unexpected whit space --->
<cfprocessingdirective suppresswhitespace="Yes">
<!--- set encoding, we trick it later as utf-8 --->
<cfcontent type="text/xml; charset=utf-16">
<cfxml variable="myXml">
<rss xmlns:itunes=" http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>ctitle</title>
<link>clink</link>
<language>en-us</language>
<copyright> ArtsProfessional</copyright>
<lastBuildDate>clastbuild</lastBuildDate>
<pubDate>clastbuild</pubDate>
<itunes:subtitle>csubtitle</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>cauthor</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary>cdescript</itunes:summary>
<description>cdescript</description>
<image>
<url>cimg_url</url>
<title>cimg_ttl</title>
<link>clink</link>
</image>
<itunes:owner>
<itunes:name>owner_name</itunes:name>
<itunes:email>owner_email</itunes:email>
</itunes:owner>
<itunes:image href="cimg_url" />
<itunes:category text="itunes_cat" />
<itunes:category text="itunes_cat2" />
</channel>
</rss>
</cfxml>
<!--- write your file --->
<cffile action="WRITE" file="\\192.168.1.104\podcasts\XML\podcasttest.xml" output="#toString(myXML)#">
</cfprocessingdirective>
<cfcatch type="any">
<!--- if an erro occurs, tell me what it was --->
<cfoutput>#cfcatch.Detail#</cfoutput>
</cfcatch>
</cftry>

Good luck!

the right syntax for including a namespace is
xmlns:itunes=" http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"

insuractive- i was just testing to see if my code worked (which is doesn't!!)

i am still receiving the following error message:

An error occured while Parsing an XML document.
The prefix "itunes" for element "itunes:subtitle" is not bound.

Just out of curiosity - why are you using <cfxml> and then output the results using toString()? What about just using <cfsavecontent> instead?

Why is your closing cfxml tag before the closing channel and rss tags? Change that, then try again. I would also suggest the XMLFormat() to ensure valid characters.


Example above:

</cfxml>
</channel>
</rss>


Should be :

</channel>
</rss>
</cfxml>

NB: changed the line that was causing trouble to<rss version="2.0"> and now the error reads : ' The prefix "itunes" for element "itunes:subtitle" is not bound.'

urgh