Help Parsing XML

[chaoticyeshua]

Hi all,

I am needing some assistance with parsing some XML code. The purpose of this is to pull warranty information for Dell computers I support. I am needing only the EndDate value on the first AssetEntitlement node, and unfortunately I cannot seem to get _XMLDomWrapper to work. The below code works to read in the XML file and list the child nodes:

AdditionalInformation
AssetWarrantyResponse
ExcessTags
InvalidBILAssets
InvalidFormatAssets

Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to read anything at all below each of the above child nodes. I'm very unfamiliar with how to parse XML files.

;Create a Microsoft XML HTTP object
Local $oXML = ObjCreate("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")

;Open a connection to the Dell REST API to pull the warranty information. This returns XML code
$oXML.Open("GET", "https://api.dell.com/support/assetinfo/v4/getassetwarranty/" & GUICTRLRead($iSerialNumber) & "?apikey=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX", 0)
$oXML.SetRequestHeader("Accept", "Application/xml")
$oXML.Send

;Create a file in temp with the returned XML code
$sFile = _TempFile(@TempDir, '~', '.xml')
FileWrite($sFile, $oXML.responseText)

If _XMLFileOpen($sFile) Then
    Local $aRet = _XMLGetChildNodes('//*')

    If Not @error Then
        For $i = 1 To $aRet[0]
            ConsoleWrite($aRet[$i] & @LF)
        Next
    EndIf
EndIf

 

XML:

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<AssetWarrantyDTO xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Dell.Support.AssetsExternalAPI.Web.Models.V1.Response">
<AdditionalInformation i:nil="true"/>
<AssetWarrantyResponse>
<AssetWarrantyResponse>
<AssetEntitlementData>
<AssetEntitlement>
<EndDate>2018-07-13T23:59:59</EndDate>
<EntitlementType>INITIAL</EntitlementType>
<ItemNumber>997-7188</ItemNumber>
<ServiceLevelCode>ND</ServiceLevelCode>
<ServiceLevelDescription>
Onsite Service After Remote Diagnosis (Consumer Customer)/ Next Business Day Onsite After Remote Diagnosis (Commercial Customer)
</ServiceLevelDescription>
<ServiceLevelGroup>5</ServiceLevelGroup>
<ServiceProvider>UNY</ServiceProvider>
<StartDate>2015-07-13T00:00:00</StartDate>
</AssetEntitlement>
<AssetEntitlement>
<EndDate>2018-07-13T23:59:59</EndDate>
<EntitlementType>INITIAL</EntitlementType>
<ItemNumber>984-1772</ItemNumber>
<ServiceLevelCode>KK</ServiceLevelCode>
<ServiceLevelDescription>Keep Your Hard Drive Service</ServiceLevelDescription>
<ServiceLevelGroup>11</ServiceLevelGroup>
<ServiceProvider>DELL</ServiceProvider>
<StartDate>2015-07-13T00:00:00</StartDate>
</AssetEntitlement>
<AssetEntitlement>
<EndDate>2018-07-13T23:59:59</EndDate>
<EntitlementType>INITIAL</EntitlementType>
<ItemNumber>997-7208</ItemNumber>
<ServiceLevelCode>TS</ServiceLevelCode>
<ServiceLevelDescription>ProSupport</ServiceLevelDescription>
<ServiceLevelGroup>8</ServiceLevelGroup>
<ServiceProvider>DELL</ServiceProvider>
<StartDate>2015-07-13T00:00:00</StartDate>
</AssetEntitlement>
</AssetEntitlementData>
<AssetHeaderData>
<BUID>11</BUID>
<CountryLookupCode>US</CountryLookupCode>
<CustomerNumber>142366234</CustomerNumber>
<IsDuplicate>false</IsDuplicate>
<ItemClassCode>J2002</ItemClassCode>
<LocalChannel>65</LocalChannel>
<MachineDescription>Precision Tower Workstation (T5810)</MachineDescription>
<OrderNumber>852696778</OrderNumber>
<ParentServiceTag i:nil="true"/>
<ServiceTag>XXXXXX</ServiceTag>
<ShipDate>2015-07-13T00:00:00</ShipDate>
</AssetHeaderData>
<ProductHeaderData>
<LOB>Dell Precision WorkStation</LOB>
<LOBFriendlyName>Precision WorkStation</LOBFriendlyName>
<ProductFamily>Desktops & All-in-Ones</ProductFamily>
<ProductId>precision-t5810-workstation</ProductId>
<SystemDescription>Precision Tower Workstation (T5810)</SystemDescription>
</ProductHeaderData>
</AssetWarrantyResponse>
</AssetWarrantyResponse>
<ExcessTags>
<BadAssets xmlns:d3p1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays"/>
</ExcessTags>
<InvalidBILAssets>
<BadAssets xmlns:d3p1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays"/>
</InvalidBILAssets>
<InvalidFormatAssets>
<BadAssets xmlns:d3p1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays"/>
</InvalidFormatAssets>
</AssetWarrantyDTO>

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

[chaoticyeshua]

Never mind, I just found the updated version of _XMLDomWrapper at 

This has example code for how to do what I'm needing to do so I will try to figure it out on my own  Thanks

[mikell]

@chaoticyeshua

As an alternative you might simply extract the wanted data from the response using a regular expression 

$txt = $oXML.responseText
$sEndDate = StringRegExpReplace($txt, '(?s).*?<EndDate>([^<]+).*', "$1")

 

[chaoticyeshua]

9 hours ago, mikell said:

@chaoticyeshua

As an alternative you might simply extract the wanted data from the response using a regular expression 

$txt = $oXML.responseText
$sEndDate = StringRegExpReplace($txt, '(?s).*?<EndDate>([^<]+).*', "$1")

 

Thank you for the advice. I ended up resolving this by using XML.au3's tidy function to clean up the XML file downloaded from Dell, then reading the file into an array and finding the data I need using StringInStr.

[jdelaney]

When what you are looking for is more complex, post the problem, and someone will show you how the xpaths work to find whatever it is.