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alex_panganiban
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3 years ago
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XML Generator Arrays

I'm having an issue with the XML Generator. I feel what I'm doing should work. Hoping someone can enlighten me on what's going on. I have an array that gets passed into the XML Generator snap. For ea...
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    darshthakkar
    4 years ago

    Thanks @robin, I haven’t had a chance to test the solution you provided but I’m sure it would have worked.
    I went with a different route for my development so the concern I was having has been resolved.

    XML Generator does intake dynamic values if they have been binded properly prior to it (using Aggregate or Group By), the only challenge I found was ingesting native html tags because <a href ="$URL"> wasn’t generating the desired output as the tags gets converted to snapLogic’s predefined symbols like < = &lt;,so on and so forth. Check these links for detailed explanation on tags conversion:

    Link 1
    Link 2

    What I found and worked for me was defining the html format (if you’re trying to generate html files; could be any format you’re interested into) in the mapper itself/file writer and then let the format do its job.

    Thanking @robin for his suggestions, time and help on this. Signing off from this thread.

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alex_panganiban
Contributor
3 years ago

Awesome! Thanks Ivica. Your solution made me realize that the "memberIds" element does not actually need to exist in the incoming document. It's actually dynamic. Not knowing that was what was causing my problem. Thanks so much for this learning. My final solution was this:

 

#foreach($member in $members)
<b:guid>$member.memberId</b:guid>
#end