I have to correct myself. Of course, Mik, I can convert the structure to XML, which is then passed as a string to the remote server. That string would then have to be re-serialized to an XML doc before they can do anything with it. I'm investigating whether this makes sense.
> Thanks for the reply. > > I don't know anything about that UDF, but I don't think I want to go > that route, simply because XML processing can be slow, and if I have > to convert every struct to an XML format prior to handing it off to > the web service engine, that's probably more of a performance hit than > I'd like to take. > > But aside from that, I'm betting that wouldn't work anyway. The web > service engine *does* convert the structure into XML before shipping > it to the remote server, but the problem is that the XML format is not > one that is part of the standard web service formats (as I understand > it). I'm betting structToXml() converts the structure into a format > that also isn't part of the standard web service formats. > > I just tried your suggestion, and it does seem to work, but I think > I'll probably still avoid it. Good to know the option exists, though. > Thanks, Mik. > > > >Couldn't you just do something like this: > > > > <cfreturn StructToXML(myStruct)> > > > >Mik > > > > > >At 02:06 PM 3/2/2007, you wrote: >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:271365 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
