get all elements of xml body and add to struct

Question

I am looking for a way to loop through an XML-Body and pass each xml element into a struct. i got access to the xml body in this way:

Answer 1

unless you know the structure of the XML object ahead of time you will have to test each child object and traverse down the nodes till you know you have a simple object. To help there are the "is" functions as in:

isObject(var);
isStruct(var);
isArray(var);
isSimpleValue(variable);

Once you know you have an array (for example) you loop through it's index by length as in:

<Cfif isArray(children)>
<cfloop form="1" to="#arraylen(children)#" index="i">
      <cfset thisNode = children[i]/>
      <cfif isStruct(thisNode)?
         .... do something with the structkeylist.
      </cfif>
     <Cfif isArray(thisNode)>
        .... more looping...
     </cfif>
</cfloop>
</cfif>

This can be pretty daunting for really complex objects. I'm curious as to why you would do it? XML is designed to be "non-flat" - is there a specific requirement to flatten it?

Answer 2

Is this what you were looking for? XmlToStruct on RIAForge