Helps tremendously--I think I was missing a portion of the understanding of pulling down the xml and parsing it; a little silly, but a lot of irons in the fire these days.
I appreciate that you've left it open-ended, and I believe I will take you up on your offer. Kind regards, Russ > -----Original Message----- > From: Samuel R. Neff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 6:10 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: CFMX & XML > > > Russ, > > You said you wanted quick and dirty pointers, so here it is. > Need more specifics, please ask. > > If it's SOAP based web service, then use CFINVOKE. (CFMX Only) > > If it's custom XML such as the DesDev feed, use CFHTTP to > grab the XML and the XmlParse to create an XML object. (CFMX > Only, on CF5 use Xerces-J to parse the XML) > > If it's WDDX (or CFC web service being called from CF5) grab > the XML with CFHTTP and then parse with WDDX. CF4 or later. > > HTH, > > Sam > > ---------------------------------------- > Samuel R. Neff > Senior Software Engineer > B-Line Express > Advanced ColdFusion 5.0 Certified > Team Macromedia Volunteer for ColdFusion > ---------------------------------------- > > Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 00:40:29 -0500 > From: "Russ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: CFMX & XML > Message-ID: <020201c266b1$92db5f10$6f03a8c0@autolycus> > > Folks, > > I apologize in advance for drudging up something that I'm > guessing has already been through the ringer, but my searches > aren't helping my find something that I've rather found to be > fairly simple and straightforward in Flash: > > Pulling an XML feed. > > That said, can anyone simply point me in the right direction? > No spoilers, please. > > ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists

