How to generate xml document with dynamic data

RE: How to generate xml document with dynamic data

mokc0038 — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:42:17 GMT

Thanks a lot

RE: How to generate xml document with dynamic data

David Jimenez — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:44:10 GMT

a!localVariables(

  local!valor: "<n1:root xmlns:n1=""root2"" xmlns:a="">www.appian.com/.../2009"" xmlns:xsd="">www.w3.org/.../XMLSchema"" xmlns:xsi="">www.w3.org/...></n1:root>",

  regexreplaceall("\sxmlns[^""]+""[^""]+""", local!valor, "")

)

Try this....

RE: How to generate xml document with dynamic data

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 15:46:55 GMT

Regexes in Appian are not different to other languages. Get the plugin installed and check stackoverflow or other resources.

RE: How to generate xml document with dynamic data

mokc0038 — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 15:45:07 GMT

thanks David,

Could you please give a more detailed example?

I am not too familiar with regular expressions in Appian

like how to remeove the header and footer from previous generated xml

<n1:root xmlns:n1="root2" xmlns:a="">www.appian.com/.../2009" xmlns:xsd="">www.w3.org/.../XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="">www.w3.org/.../

n1:root>

thanks

RE: How to generate xml document with dynamic data

David Jimenez — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:56:41 GMT

Use regular expressions in order to remove the namespaces from the resulting xml, for example

\sxmlns[^"]+"[^"]+"

RE: How to generate xml document with dynamic data

mokc0038 — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:16:56 GMT

much better now!

last to remove are the "xsi:type" data and the

<n1:root xmlns:n1="root2" xmlns:a="">www.appian.com/.../2009" xmlns:xsd="">www.w3.org/.../XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="">www.w3.org/.../n1:root>

<n1:root xmlns:n1="root2" xmlns:a="">www.appian.com/.../2009" xmlns:xsd="">www.w3.org/.../XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="">www.w3.org/.../XMLSchema-instance">

</n1:root>

possible with parameters only?

RE: How to generate xml document with dynamic data

Stefan Helzle — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:56:02 GMT

That seems to be the standard with record type data. Did you try to cast the data to maps?

cast(
  type!Map,
  <your data>
)

RE: How to generate xml document with dynamic data

mokc0038 — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:52:12 GMT

toxml(
value:a!map(
one:rule!ZMK_GetDEMANDEByIddemande(1),
two: now()
),
format:true,
name:"root",
namespace:"root2"
)

and the result is

"<n1:root xmlns:n1="root2" xmlns:a="http://www.appian.com/ae/types/2009" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <one xmlns:n2="urn:com:appian:recordtype:datatype" xsi:type="n2:4d150a11-17bc-4370-b1d6-5db2f05a6bda"> <iddemande xsi:type="xsd:int" uuid="f7dfcec7-9a6f-44f2-ac39-651317a0cf9d">1</iddemande> <statut xsi:type="xsd:string" uuid="f41f320f-ff4a-4077-a59b-75960d9310c7">NEW</statut> <dateStatut xsi:type="xsd:string" uuid="76b39c40-b653-44e6-901d-6697f1281513" /> <statusId xsi:nil="true" xsi:type="xsd:int" uuid="76534201-8a54-4fc0-a951-0459d7d690d8" /> <idremise xsi:nil="true" xsi:type="xsd:int" uuid="63dd9e79-b738-40d1-af3b-a452e470b4e6" /> <topUrgence xsi:nil="true" xsi:type="xsd:boolean" uuid="0bbc73b0-88dd-4bbb-8f6f-68fe62e72f90" /> <createdBy a:id="" xsi:type="a:User" uuid="c4af67cd-1d10-44ce-9b92-3000ffe0a602" /> <createdOn xsi:nil="true" xsi:type="xsd:dateTime" uuid="b173133d-de4d-4c94-9dbc-5667a57a507a" /> <modifiedBy a:id="" xsi:type="a:User" uuid="1692f2fd-e43b-46ae-beb3-2b4fb9cb88ac" /> <modifiedOn xsi:nil="true" xsi:type="xsd:dateTime" uuid="11eff0d9-0aa6-44ff-b0ab-fdb9cc98397e" /> </one> <two xsi:type="xsd:dateTime">2024-02-27T14:36:20.060Z</two> </n1:root>

With no formatting , UUID instead of field names and still have the xmlns and xsi2:type metadata...

RE: How to generate xml document with dynamic data

David Jimenez — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 10:35:57 GMT

Could you post your code here? Stefan solutions seems to be correct..... Maybe there is some kind of error in your code?

RE: How to generate xml document with dynamic data

mokc0038 — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 08:55:08 GMT

I've tried them without success so yes it seems like there will be no choice than using substitute unless someone has a better solution

RE: How to generate xml document with dynamic data

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:29:50 GMT

toxml has a few parameters. Try these. And yeah, I know that the resulting XML is not clean. In the past, I had to remove some strings manually using substitute()

RE: How to generate xml document with dynamic data

mokc0038 — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:20:11 GMT

thanks Stefan,

How do I make it basic, without all the a:map and xlmns within the xml?

thanjs

RE: How to generate xml document with dynamic data

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 10:50:03 GMT

Just use toxml() and write that into a text document using "template.xml" and the smart service described above.

RE: How to generate xml document with dynamic data

mokc0038 — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 10:37:46 GMT

Is there any update on this?

Typically would like to generate an xml file with dynamic date (coming from record) based on an xsd

What would be the most efficient way to do so?

RE: How to generate xml document with dynamic data

georgej — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 13:47:44 GMT

Custom java plugins may come handy ,but as such in my limited knowledge there are no ootb for serializing an object. We used to handle this situation using string concatenation inside rules. Inside the rule an xml template will be placed, with appropriate place holders as incoming parameters. Basically the rule returns a well formatted XML document with the provided parameters.

RE: How to generate xml document with dynamic data

chetany — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 12:37:13 GMT

If the dynamic data is in CDT format, the toxml() function should be of use to you.
Once the dynamic data is converted to XML string, use the "Text Doc from Template" smart service. In the template, specify a text file containing a single placeholder for the XML.
Then just rename the file extension to .xml using the "Edit Document" smart service.
Since XML files are basically text files, you can leverage the "Text Doc from Template" smart service.

RE: How to generate xml document with dynamic data

sparshs — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 11:23:44 GMT

You can use java for this. You can create a Appian plugin for this.