I'm with Alex on this. If you're not needing to work with it as XML, then don't make it XML. It's a string that you happen to need to store which - at some point in the future - you need to treat as XML, That "some point in the future" is when you need to "XMLify" it. Not when yer storing it.
-- Adam On Friday, September 7, 2012 8:08:23 PM UTC+1, Alex Skinner wrote: > > But if it's just for persistence then just treat it as a string rather > than an xmlobject. Try your example with cfsavecontent rather than cfxml > > A > > On Friday, 7 September 2012, Benjamin Davis > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > Thanks Peter. I'll dig into this and see what comes of it. :) > > > > On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Peter J. Farrell > > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > >> > >> Benjamin Davis said the following on 09/07/2012 01:32 PM: > >>> > >>> I guess that I should have explained it a little more. The XML is > actually coming from a webservice. I don't have a choice in that matter. > What I want to do is store it into Mongo to simplify it, but I will also > need to be able to reconstruct it or some of it again. If it isn't easily > possible that's fine. I can come up with some other ideas. > >> > >> You can use Mongo to store documents (binary or plain text) using > Mongo's GridFS support. OpenBD supports it: > >> > >> http://www.openbluedragon.org/manual/?/function/mongogridfssave > >> > >> I haven't used it directly, but that was a suggestion on the Mongo > Google Group thread: > >> > >> > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mongodb-user/uraigjs9A1M > >> > >> -- > >> Peter J. Farrell > >> OpenBD Steering Committee / Mach-II Lead Developer > >> http://blog.maestropublishing.com > >> Identi.ca / Twitter: @maestrofjp > >> > >> Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send > OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/ > >> > >> -- > >> online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ > >> http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en > > > > -- > > online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ > > http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en > > > > -- > Alex Skinner > Managing Director > Pixl8 Interactive > > Tel: +448452600726 > Email: [email protected] <javascript:> > Web: pixl8.co.uk > > > -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
