Yeah, I tried that tag first, but there were problems... it was
inserting extraneous <value>...</value> tags.
the XML2Struct is cleaner & no garbage is genertated,
Dick
At 6:55 PM -0400 8/13/01, Hinojosa, Robert A wrote:
>A similar tag which is newer and has more features is the SOXML tag.
>
>which can be found at
>
>http://www.siteobjects.com/index.cfm?fuseAction=showProducts
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dick Applebaum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 5:45 PM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: RE: Reading an XML post
>
>
>If you have the ability to write the URL page they are posting to it
>is very simple...
>
> <cfsetting EnableCFOutputOnly="Yes">
>
> <cfif IsDefined("Form.XMLInput")>
>
> <cftry>
> <cf_XmlToFromStruct
> action="XML2Struct" input="#Form.XMLInput#" output="structXMLIn">
> <cfcatch type="any">
> <cfoutput><br><br><h4>Content received from User was not an XML
>packet,
> program aborted!</h4></cfoutput>
> <cfdump var="#Form.XMLInput#">
> <cfabort>
> </cfcatch>
> </cftry>
>
>
> <!--- The XML packet (if valid) can be processed in structXMLIn --->
>
> <cfdump var="#structXMLIn#">
>
> <cfelse>
>
> <cfsetting EnableCFOutputOnly="No">
>
> <FORM NAME="myform" METHOD="POST">
> <TEXTAREA NAME="XMLInput" COLS=80 ROWS=20></TEXTAREA>
> </FORM>
>
> </cfif>
>
>The cf_XmlToFromStruct tag can be found in the Allaire tag gallery.
>
>HTH
>
>Dick
>
>At 2:57 PM -0700 8/13/01, Zac Belado wrote:
>> > One of our customers will start sending us orders using XML. They
>>> basically will post the file to a URL in our web server. Using ASP, I
>>> can read the contents of the post using Request.BinaryRead. Is there
>>> anything similar in ColdFusion?
>>
>>You could use CFFile if it is a local asset or, perhaps easier, use CFHTTP
>>to laod the contents of the file
>>
>>
>>
>
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