Problem parsing XML data

[ressifelt]

Hi everyone, I tried to parse a xml data but i couldnt figure it out.

I get this error:

Complex object types cannot be converted to simple values.

This is my code :

<cfset the_url = 'https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/210456?format=xml&key=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' />

<cfhttp url="#the_url#" method="get" result="Results" timeout="999">

<cfset asd = XmlParse(Results)>

[Charlie Arehart]

Do a dump of the results var.  Is it xml? And nothing else?

Some other tips:

• In doing the dump, you should see what comes from the cfhttp, separate from any output of the page doing the dump (including cf debugging output) 
• If the page being called in the_url is a cfml page, you want to be sure IT is not returning debug output. The xmlparse will choke on that. 
• Another approach is to cfoutput (rather than cfdump) the results var, and then do a view>source in your browser to see what's coming back
• Finally, I can't recall if xmlparse REQUIRES an xml "prolog" line, as the first in an xml string to parse. That would start with a line showing <?xml .. I'm writing on my phone and can't readily recall/test, but you can see the full line in the cfml docs page on xmlparse

Let us know how it goes. 

[ressifelt]

Yes is a xml file 

Content-Type

application/xml; charset=utf-8

I find the soluiton i change the variable as   'Results.filecontent'   and it worked.

But still  dont know why didn't work at the first time

[WolfShade · Accepted solution]

Because what is returned is more than just the content.  It also returns header information and some other things, so you have to specify "filecontent", unless you're CFDUMPing the result.

V/r,

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