json data in xml-tag

[franxic]

Hi there,

I want to evaluate a json-array that is stored inside a xml-file, e.g.:

<club>Real Madrid</club>

<json_members>{members:[{member_name:sergio,member_since:2010},{member_name:alonso,member_since:2007}]}</json_members>

I need to do that this way because the internet gateway our company uses does not support filling the database with an unknown number of datafields.

Any help is appreciated.

Regards, Frank

 

[calculate.machine]

The algorithm is this: retrieve the substring beginning with "members" from xml, take it as JSON data and parse it as a two-dimensional table. It is complicated to write a report script to code this. An alternative is to first parse JSON using esProc import@j() function and then use the report to access the esProc code via JDBC. Below is the code:

A1=file("d:\source.txt").read()

A2=pos(A1,"{members")

A3=pos(A1,"</json_members>")

A4=mid(A1,A2,A3-A2)

A5=A4.import@j().members  

You can find more examples in http://blog.raqsoft.com/?p=4679 .