Reading XML

[PaulBW]

If you have an XML string like this:

<ZipCodes>
	<string>98001</string>
	<string>98002</string>
	<string>98003</string>
	.....
	<string>98380</string>
	<string>98383</string>
	<string>98392</string>
	<string>98422</string>
	</ZipCodes>

and the number of <string> nodes are unknown, is there a way to find that number.

Currently I just loop 1 to 10000 and use cftry to break out of the loop when it gets to too high a number.

Is there a better way?

[Adam Cameron.]

Have you read through the docs on using XML in CF:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/XML_01.html

Particularly these pages:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/XML_06.html

http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/XML_08.html

http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/XML_16.html

If you read these, you should be able to pick up what you need to do.

--

Adam

[Owainnorth]

Hi Paul

There certainly is.

Get your file, run it through xmlParse(). Once you've searched/navigated through to your root object, the children appear as an array of nodes called XmlChildren.

I do something simliar to this in one of my systems:

for ( LOCAL.i=1; LOCAL.i LTE arrayLen(thisSection.xmlChildren); LOCAL.i++ ) {
     LOCAL.CONF[thisSection.xmlName][thisSection.xmlChildren[LOCAL.i].xmlAttributes.name] =           thisSection.xmlChildren[LOCAL.i].xmlAttributes.value ;
}

So yes you do have a better way - use arrayLen(xmlChildren).