I am transforming some XML from a system that comes to me as a fairly
"flat" format to a new XML in a more hierarchical form that I can use in
my app. The hierarchy of the new XML is based on the values contained in
the "flat" xml (as to which nodes things should go under). I have it
90% done, except for the last little bit:
(this is _contentXML)
<xml>
<rows>
<row>
<Module>iBuild</Module>
<Subsection>Assumptions</Subsection>
<Topic>Starting iRequire</Topic>
<Overview>To start iRequire, you will first need to do a few
things, like create a user name and password.</Overview>
<Author>Sanders, Larry</Author>
...etc.
</row>
<row>
<Module>iDeliver</Module>
<Subsection>Technical Constraints</Subsection>
...etc.
And I need to get it to look like this:
(this is finalXML)
<module title="iPlan" orderID="5.00000000000000">
<subsections>
<subsection title="Assumptions">
<topics>
<topic title="Starting iRequire" author="Merrill, Jason"
modified="2009-05-01 13:44:29" animationFileName="hello.swf"
created="2009-05-01 13:43:24" editor="Merrill, Jason">
<Overview>Blah</Overview>
<Steps><step>1. This is the first step.2.This is the
second step.</Steps>
</topic>
<topic title="Entering Requirements into iRequire"
author="Merrill, Jason" modified="2009-05-01 13:44:29"
animationFileName="hello.swf" created="2009-05-01 13:43:24"
editor="Merrill, Jason">
<Overview>Blah</Overview>
<Steps><step>1. This is the first step.2.This is the
second step.</Steps>
</topic>
<topic title="Making Assumptions" author="Merrill, Jason"
modified="2009-05-01 13:44:29" animationFileName="hello.swf"
created="2009-05-01 13:43:24" editor="Merrill, Jason">
<Overview>Blah</Overview>
<Steps><step>1. This is the first step.2.This is the
second step.</Steps>
</topic>
</topics>
</subsection>
<subsection title="Project Information">
<topics>
<topic title="Making Assumptions".... etc.
So I have all that working so far, except that it only inserts ONE topic
(1) - the last one if finds that matches the proper module and
subsection.
Here is my code for creating, finding the right part of the XML and
inserting topics (though as I mentioned, the problem is it only inserts
one topic)
for each (var contentRowItem2:XML in _contentXML..row)
{
var moduleName:String =
stripSharepointPoundTag(contentRowItem2.Module);
var topicXML:XML = new XML("<topic />");
topicx...@title = contentRowItem2.LinkTitle;
topicx...@author =
stripSharepointPoundTag(contentRowItem2.Author);
//..etc
topicXML.overview = new XML(<overview />);
topicXML.steps = new XML(<steps />);
topicXML.overview = contentRowItem2.Overview;
//..etc
var modulesList:XMLList = finalXML..module.(@title ==
moduleName);
modulesList[0]..subsection.(@title==contentRowItem2.Subsection).topics =
new XML(<topics />);
if (modulesList.length()!= 1)
throw new Error("Can't find single module with
title:"+moduleName);
var topicsList:XMLList =
modulesList[0]..subsection.(@title==contentRowItem2.Subsection).topics;
if (topicsList.length()!=1)
throw new Error("Can't find single subsection with
title:"+contentRowItem.Subsection);
topicsList[0].appendChild(topicXML);
}
This produces this:
<xml>
<modules>
<module title="iRequire" orderID="0">
<subsections>
<subsection title="Technical Constraints">
<topics>
<topic title="Topic 2 from iRequire, Technical Constraints"
author="Markley, Bill" modified="2009-05-01 13:44:29"
animationFileName="hello.swf" created="2009-05-01 13:43:24"
editor="Wade, Sandra">
<Overview>Blah blah blah</Overview>
<Steps><step>1. This is the first
step.</step><step>2. This is the second
step.</step></Steps>
</topic>
</topics>
</subsection>
<subsection title="Project Information">
<topics>
<topic title="Topic 1 from iRequire, Project Information"
author="Merrill, Jason" modified="2009-05-01 13:44:29"
animationFileName="hello.swf" created="2009-05-01 13:43:24"
editor="Merrill, Jason">
<Overview>Blah blah blah and more blah and even more
blah</Overview>
<Steps><step>1. This is the first step.2.This is the
second step.</Steps>
</topic>
</topics>
</subsection>
..etc.
All great, except there are more topic nodes that should be under
modules.subsections.topics., but there is only one per subtopic. The
last part of my script, topicsList[0].appendChild(topicXML), is
suspect- but I would think that appendChild would keep adding children,
not overwrite them in topicsList[0]. Any ideas what is going on here
and how to fix? Thanks!
Jason Merrill
Bank of America Global Learning
Shared Services Solutions Development
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