proxy script for grabbing XML using CF.

[tudd]

I can get a XML document using ColdFusion and CFHTTP...

question is what kind of variable do I put the resulting XML content into...

and then how do I reference that with flash?


the XML resides on a third party domain and I need to supply my site with it's content.

[Flash-db]

As long as your able to grab the info from the other site using a CF script - then you could do something like this:

myXML = new XML();
myXML.onLoad = convertXML;

myXML.load("YourCFXMLGrabberScript.cfm");

function convertXML () {

......

}

The script goes out - grabs the XML.  You could not have to assign any type of variable in this case - You would only want to grab the exact format and content of the XML on the other site - then print it out to the script the same way.  That will then be read in by Flash - and you can do all that XML conversion/formatting stuff just like on your other flash movie that your using on a different site.

[tudd]

after the load function and before the convert function

is there a way to error check to see if the file was loaded or in the convert function to tell if the XML returned was not in error?

I want to display error message if the document was unretreivable or in error in any way.

[Flash-db]

Yes you can either build that part into your CF script - or into the Flash client.  Since you have to use a proxy script in this case it might be best to do this in your CF script.  

It's just going to be a simple If/Else statement - Like if it was successful print out the xml - else print out an error message to send back to flash.

A way to test this initially is to just type in the URL to the CF script and make sure that everything is being printed out to the screen correctly.