This is the information that the XML string has.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<string xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
<statusInfo><vendorClaimID>BRADY12478018AETNA</vendorClaimID>
<statusID>0</statusID><statusDescription>Unvalidated</statusDescription>
</statusInfo></string>
But this is how it comes in.. You will have to scroll to the right to see all of it.
'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>'#$D#$A'<string xmlns="http://tempuri.org/"><statusInfo><vendorClaimID>BRADY12478018AETNA</vendorClaimID><statusID>0</statusID><statusDescription>Unvalidated</statusDescription></statusInfo></string>'
I have loaded the string into a XMLDoc, but don't know how to access the values easily from here..
var
doc: IXMLDocument;
doc := LoadXMLData(xmlString);
Thanks!
You can use XPath to extract the values of the nodes
Check this sample
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}
{$R *.res}
uses
MSXML,
SysUtils,
ActiveX,
ComObj;
Const
XMLStr=
'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> '+
'<string xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">'+
' <statusInfo>'+
' <vendorClaimID>BRADY12478018AETNA</vendorClaimID> '+
' <statusID>0</statusID><statusDescription>Unvalidated</statusDescription> '+
' </statusInfo>'+
'</string> ';
procedure Test;
Var
XMLDOMDocument : IXMLDOMDocument;
XMLDOMNode : IXMLDOMNode;
begin
XMLDOMDocument:=CoDOMDocument.Create;
XMLDOMDocument.loadXML(XmlStr);
XMLDOMNode := XMLDOMDocument.selectSingleNode('//string/statusInfo/vendorClaimID');
if XMLDOMNode<>nil then
Writeln(Format('vendorClaimID %s',[String(XMLDOMNode.Text)]));
XMLDOMNode := XMLDOMDocument.selectSingleNode('//string/statusInfo/statusID');
if XMLDOMNode<>nil then
Writeln(Format('statusID %s',[String(XMLDOMNode.Text)]));
XMLDOMNode := XMLDOMDocument.selectSingleNode('//string/statusInfo/statusDescription');
if XMLDOMNode<>nil then
Writeln(Format('statusDescription %s',[String(XMLDOMNode.Text)]));
end;
begin
try
CoInitialize(nil);
try
Test;
finally
CoUninitialize;
end;
except
on E:EOleException do
Writeln(Format('EOleException %s %x', [E.Message,E.ErrorCode]));
on E:Exception do
Writeln(E.Classname, ':', E.Message);
end;
Writeln('Press Enter to exit');
Readln;
end.
Each node in the XML will be represented as an IXMLNode
in the IXMLDocument
, in the same hierarchy that they appear in the XML. It would help if you first look at the XML with the nodes indented so you can see the hierarchy more clearly:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<string xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
<statusInfo>
<vendorClaimID>BRADY12478018AETNA</vendorClaimID>
<statusID>0</statusID>
<statusDescription>Unvalidated</statusDescription>
</statusInfo>
</string>
One you understand the hierarchy, you can write code for it:
var
doc: IXMLDocument;
statusInfo: IXMLNode;
vendorClaimID: String;
statusID: Integer;
statusDescription: String;
begin
doc := LoadXMLData(xmlString);
statusInfo := doc.DocumentElement.ChildNodes['statusInfo'];
vendorClaimID := statusInfo.ChildNodes['vendorClaimID'].Text;
statusID := StrToInt(statusInfo.ChildNodes['statusID'].Text);
statusDescription := statusInfo.ChildNodes['statusDescription'].Text;
end;
Alternatively:
var
doc: IXMLDocument;
statusInfo: IXMLNode;
vendorClaimID: String;
statusID: Integer;
statusDescription: String;
begin
doc := LoadXMLData(xmlString);
statusInfo := doc.DocumentElement.ChildNodes['statusInfo'];
vendorClaimID := VarToStr(statusInfo.ChildValues['vendorClaimID']);
statusID := StrToInt(VarToStr(statusInfo.ChildValues['statusID']));
statusDescription := VarToStr(statusInfo.ChildValues['statusDescription']);
end;
If you use Delphi's XML Data Binding wizard, it will generate interfaces that will parse the XML for you:
var
doc: IXMLDocument;
statusInfo: IXMLstatusInfoType;
vendorClaimID: String;
statusID: Integer;
statusDescription: String;
begin
doc := LoadXMLData(xmlString);
statusInfo := Getstring(doc).statusInfo;
vendorClaimID := statusInfo.vendorClaimID;
statusID := statusInfo.statusID;
statusDescription := statusInfo.statusDescription;
end;