Using xml variable files to write to a ticket type of document

[neecerp]

does anyone have any good examples of using Javascript to read various xml (they will be different for each job) and create a document with the information in it?



Trying to create an on the fly ticket for each job that comes in to our flow.

[dkelly]

There are 2 methods for reading XML - XPath and DOM



XPath example using a XML dataset

var pdfInfo = job.getDataset("Pdf");

if (pdfInfo != null) {

var theNumberofColors = pdfInfo.evalToNumber( "count(/pdfattrs/colors/*)", null);

var theFirstColorValue = pdfInfo.evalToString( "/pdfattrs/colors/color[0]/@base", null );

}





DOM example using an XML file

var theXML = new Document("sample.xml");

var docElem = theXML.getDocumentElement();

var nodeList = theXML.getDocumentElement().getChildNodes();

for (var i=0; i < nodeList.length; i++) {

var theNode = nodeList.getItem(i);

if (theNode.getBaseName() == "resources") {

var id = theNode.getAttributeValue( "id" );

}

}



You don't mention what type of "ticket" you want to write.