wddx is just another form of an xml document. you can reference the dtd for wddx here: http://www.wddx.org
i am not sure of your question though, they are two different sets of technologies that have XML in common. cheers, Timothy Stadinski Senior Software Engineer Afternic.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Rey Bango [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 11:40 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: XML question Andres, Microsoft's XMLDOM component won't interfere w/ WDDX. The XMLDOM component is a COM object which needs to be invoked using the CFOBJECT tag. The WDDX functionality is built into CF and there are defined tags for using it. HTH. Rey... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 11:34 PM Subject: RE: XML question > 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 > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusiona 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
