From XML To Query

Question

Hi,
This is My problem:
I receive datas from an xml Feed and I always worked in this
way:
<cftry>
<!--- fetch data from web service --->
<cfhttp url="
http://www.............
method="get" charset="utf-8"/>
<cfset xmldata = cfhttp.fileContent>
<cftry>
<!--- extract data from XML document and convert to query
--->
<cfset lstColumns =
"KH,NH,KC,NC,KD,ND,KS,NS,KL,NL,KZ,NZ,LR"/>
<cfset q2 = queryNew(lstColumns)/>
<!--- <cfif isXml(cfhttp.fileContent)> avialable in
CF7 only --->
<cfset xmlObject = xmlParse(xmldata)/>
<cfloop index="i" from="1"
to="#arrayLen(xmlObject["ArrayOfHotelRoom"].xmlChildren)#">
<cfset queryAddRow(q2,1)/>
<cfloop index="ii" list="#lstColumns#">
<cfset
querySetCell(q2,ii,xmlObject["ArrayOfHotelRoom"].xmlChildren
[ii].xmlText)/>
</cfloop>
</cfloop>
<!--- </cfif> --->
<cfcatch type="any"> <!--- any errors return empty
result set --->
<cfset q2 = queryNew(lstColumns)/>
</cfcatch>
</cftry>
<cfcatch type="any">
<cfoutput>There has been an internal problem. Please
try again later</cfoutput>
<cfexit>
</cfcatch>
</cftry>
<!--- use QoQ to filter by hotel name --->
<cfquery name="q" dbtype="query">
select * from q2
where SH = 'A' <!--- only show available hotels --->
</cfquery>
NOW THE PROBLEM IS THAT I NEED NOW TO IMPROVE MY SYSTEM USING
A NEW VERSION OF THE XML CATALOGUE THAT NOW INCLUDE XML.CHILDREN:
THE NEW XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ArrayOfHotelRoom xmlns:xsd="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="
http://tempuri.org/xml/xmlService">
<HotelRoom>
<KH>717</KH>
<NH>Acanto Suites & Lounge</NH>
<KC>PDC</KC>
<NC>Playa del Carmen</NC>
<KD>16</KD>
<ND>Playa del Carmen</ND>
<KS>7E</KS>
<NS>Special Category</NS>
<KL>CENT</KL>
<NL>City</NL>
<KZ>1</KZ>
<NZ>The Yucatan Peninsula</NZ>
<LR>132.5000</LR>
<Rooms>
<RoomType>
<KR>VLLBR1</KR>
<NR>One Bedroom Villa</NR>
<MP>RO</MP>
<RR>132.5</RR>
<IP>0</IP>
<IL>0</IL>
<IN>0</IN>
<IF>0</IF>
<PH>0</PH>
<SH>A</SH>
</RoomType>
</Rooms>
</HotelRoom>
AS YOU SEE AFTER "LR" NOW I FIND OTHERS CHILDREN AND I DO
NOT HOW TO REDUCE MY NEW XML TO QUERY
Thank You
Andrea

Answer 1

Hi Charlie,
thanks for your fast answer. I try to figure out what's are
my doubts and need:
1) Yes it must to be a query because i need to filter data to
be shown in many different outputs.
2) I understand that it should be possible to create
something like 2 database table :
one for the Hotel and
one for Rooms with all the subitems( I confirm you that there
will be situations with more RoomType Item for each Rooms. My doubt
now is how I will be able to manage the query joining the 2 tables
when I miss a common date to show in the statement WHERE ( Example
: WHERE Hoteltable.#KH#( hotel ID ) = RoomsTable.#Here I will miss
the compare data that in the second table is not provided by the
xml#.
How will I be able to manage the query??????
I think this is our way but I am really lost at this level.
Of course the solutions with only one table with multiple
rows for each rooms type will create me problems in outputs results
. I will have results where the selection will not be the hotel but
the rooms type and will be inconvenient to receive dinamically 5
times the same hotel with the different rooms type details.
What I need is to receive each hotel only once with all the
roomstype details inside.
Thanks for your help
Andrea