Jon,
Thank you for your help on this.
Do you know if msxml will somehow affect CF's wddx implementation? i dont know if the
two relate to each other... but i am using wddx to export some data to other systems,
and dont want to interfere with those elements.
Thanks!
Andres
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thu 2/28/2002 8:45 PM
To: CF-Talk
Cc:
Subject: Re: XML question
I'd bet that it's same the problem I ran into when using MSXML via
cfobject to grab the UPS XML, which is essentially what soxml does.
CFObject apparently doesn't understand the nulls that MSXML passes back
when an XML element is empty, and bombs. If you are running an older
version of msxml you may want to upgrade it as 4.0 is out, that may fix
some problems, as 4.0 is the first solid release imo.
Have you tried the cf_usps tag? It handles pretty much everything for you.
http://devex.macromedia.com/developer/gallery/info.cfm?ID=9C9C2AB9-7F93-11D5-83F300508B94F85A&method=Full
If you want to do it via soxml here is a real simple custom tag sample
that I did that just returns the country information that usps passes
back. Expanding upon this to do full rates would be pretty easy, but
that's what the above tag goes anyway...
<CFPARAM NAME="attributes.userid">
<CFPARAM NAME="attributes.password">
<CFPARAM NAME="attributes.server">
<CFSCRIPT>
services = 'PACKAGE';
APIstr = 'IntlRate';
XMLstr = '<IntlRateRequest USERID="#attributes.userid#"
PASSWORD="#attributes.password#">';
XMLstr = XMLstr & '<Package ID="1">
<Pounds>0</Pounds>
<Ounces>1</Ounces>
<MailType>Package</MailType>
<Country>#Attributes.country#</Country>
</Package>';
XMLstr = XMLstr & '</IntlRateRequest>';
</CFSCRIPT>
<CFHTTP
URL="#attributes.server#?API=#APIstr#&XML=#urlencodedformat(XMLstr)#"
method="GET" resolveurl="false" timeout="45">
<CFSET XMLResp = CFHTTP.FileContent>
<cf_SOXML
action="XML2CF"
input="#xmlResp#"
output="countryData"
type="Variables"
>
<cfset caller.countryData = countryData.intlRateResponse.package>
jon
ps For anyone who cares, FEDEX is finally planning on releasing an XML
API withing the next two months. It's already been delayed once from Q4
2001 though, so I'm not getting my hopes up though.
Andres wrote:
> This a rather long email...
>
> i am trying to query the USPS international rate calculator via their
> API. Their response is an XML document which i am parsing via SOXML.
> This is a great tool!
>
<snip>
>
> CF throws an error saying that it cannot resolve the parameter
> outhere.IntlRateResponse.Service. Even though this does exist and indeed
> is to be an array since there are two of them.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated!
>
> Thank you
>
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