having parsing xml like below into a struct.

[nikos101]

I'm having parsing xml like below into a struct. I tried this function but that just gives me the 1st <Condition's attribute in a resultant struct

<taskConditions>
  <Condition name="TUESDAY" conditionEnabled="1" />
  <Condition name="THURSDAY" conditionEnabled="1" />
</taskConditions>

ASTR   

    Condition    [, ]   

        [1]   

        [2]   

    Condition_attributes   

        conditionEnabled    1   

        name    TUESDAY   

What happend tp the thursday attributes   ?

thanks

[Steve Sommers]

Did you try xmlParse()? It is not a CF structure per se., but very similar (you can walk the arrays but you can't StructCopy or StructAppend).

[nikos101]

still gives me the same xml string, no arrays

[Adam Cameron.]

Just a quick question: why are you trying to convert your XML into a struct?

--

Adam

[Steve Sommers]

Did you try doing a CFDUMP of the xmlParse result? Thursday is contained in the name attribute within the xmlAttributes element of each "condition" element. CFDUMP is your friend.

[nikos101]

Just a quick question: why are you trying to convert your XML into a struct?

because I will be looping through each row and be performing some code

[nikos101]

ah, very cool

xml document [short version]
XmlComment
XmlRoot	xml element XmlName taskConditions XmlNsPrefix XmlNsURI XmlText XmlComment XmlAttributes struct [empty] XmlChildren xml element XmlName Condition XmlNsPrefix XmlNsURI XmlText XmlComment XmlAttributes struct conditionEnabled 1 name MONDAY XmlChildren xml element XmlName Condition XmlNsPrefix XmlNsURI XmlText XmlComment XmlAttributes struct conditionEnabled 1 name TUESDAY XmlChildren
taskConditions	XmlText Condition XmlText XmlAttributes struct conditionEnabled 1 name MONDAY Condition XmlText XmlAttributes struct conditionEnabled 1 name TUESDAY

xml document [short version]
XmlComment
XmlRoot	xml element XmlName taskConditions XmlNsPrefix XmlNsURI XmlText XmlComment XmlAttributes struct [empty] XmlChildren xml element XmlName Condition XmlNsPrefix XmlNsURI XmlText XmlComment XmlAttributes struct conditionEnabled 1 name TUESDAY XmlChildren xml element XmlName Condition XmlNsPrefix XmlNsURI XmlText XmlComment XmlAttributes struct conditionEnabled 1 name THURSDAY XmlChildren
taskConditions	XmlText Condition XmlText XmlAttributes struct conditionEnabled 1 name TUESDAY Condition XmlText XmlAttributes struct conditionEnabled 1 name THURSDAY

xml document [short version]
XmlComment
XmlRoot	xml element XmlName taskConditions XmlNsPrefix XmlNsURI XmlText XmlComment XmlAttributes struct [empty] XmlChildren xml element XmlName Condition XmlNsPrefix XmlNsURI XmlText XmlComment XmlAttributes struct conditionEnabled 1 name WEDNESDAY XmlChildren
taskConditions	XmlText Condition XmlText XmlAttributes struct conditionEnabled 1 name WEDNESDAY

I'm trying to mimic a flex filter function and I'm not sure how to implement it in a cfscript. I basicallly need to put each condidtion name ie, Tuesday into a dictionary and then in the code test for each condition ie in flex I done this:

the code I'm trying to do in cf is

var conditionsD:Dictionary=new Dictionary
                for each(var o:Object in conditions)
                {
                    conditionsD[o.name]=true;
                }

From this code in flex

    var conditions:ArrayCollection=convertXmlToArrayCollection(new XMLDocument(item.conditionsXML));
                //create a dictionary asour conditions are strings
                var conditionsD:Dictionary=new Dictionary
                for each(var o:Object in conditions)
                {
                    conditionsD[o.name]=true;
                }
                //now we finally validate,
                if (conditionsD['SUNDAY'])
                {
                    if (today.day == 0)
                    {
                        return true;
                    }
                }
                if (conditionsD['MONDAY'])
                {
                    if (today.day == 1)
                    {
                        return true;
                    }
                }
                if (conditionsD['TUESDAY'])
                {
                    if (today.day == 2)
                    {
                        return true;
                    }
                }

[nikos101]

think its something like this:

    test = xmlParse(data.conditionsXML);   
                           
                            test2 =test.taskConditions.XmlChildren;
                           
                            for (y = 1; y <= ArrayLen(test.taskConditions.XmlChildren); y=y+1) {

                           
                            }

[nikos101]

this does what I need, but I really need a dictionary datatype wich cf doesnt seem to have

test = xmlParse(data.conditionsXML);   
                           
                            test2 =test.taskConditions.XmlChildren;
                            len = ArrayLen(test2);
                           
                            st = structNew();
                           
                            for (y = 1; y <= len; y=y+1) {
                           
                                item = test2;
                                item2 = test2.XmlAttributes.name;
                               st.item2 = item2;

                            }

[Adam Cameron.]

Are you under the impression you cannot loop through XML node sets? Or is it something else? Because needing to loop over the data and "performing some code" is not a good reason to be potentially wasting time converting the XML to a struct to do so.

What is it about the data (or it's structure) that necessitates you converting it from XML to a struct before you can do what you want to it?

--

Adam

[nikos101]

I need to cach the xml into a dictionary because of the kind of test that I will perform, I don't want

to perform the tests below each time for each xml row

    //now we finally validate,
                if (conditionsD['SUNDAY'])
                {
                    if (today.day == 0)
                    {
                        return true;
                    }
                }
                if (conditionsD['MONDAY'])
                {
                    if (today.day == 1)
                    {
                        return true;
                    }
                }
                if (conditionsD['TUESDAY'])
                {
                    if (today.day == 2)
                    {
                        return true;
                    }
                }

[nikos101]

figured it, I needed to use this to create the dictionary