Read dynamic xml api to list in appinventor ???

[HD IPTV]

Hi there i have a website that shows live tv guide data i have created a dynamic xml api with php and sql

wen the url is called it displays xml code shown bellow

<categorys>
<category>
<title>News</title>
<code>111</coode>
</category>
<category>
<title>Sports</title>
<code>111</coode>
</category>
<category>
<title>Movies</title>
<code>111</coode>
</category>
</categorys>

how can i read this from the web eliment and add each item into a list of somesort so that wen a user clicks on a item it then creates another request to the same url but with the code from the category in the xml file ?

[Ethan]

Hi, 

Can you give us the url so that we can try? 

In the meantime, you can try the event, "when Web1.GotText" and display the parameter, "responseContent"

[Taifun]

use the Web.XmlDecode block to convert the result into a list of lists

then use the lookup in pairs block to extract the relevant part, in your case the categorys

now you can use a for each in list loop to loop through the list

see also

• How to work with Lists by Saj
• How to work with Lists and Lists of lists (pdf) by appinventor.org
• An example of a complex List of Lists
• How does the lookup in pairs block work?
  

Taifun

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[Abraham Getzler]

Also see

http://ai2.appinventor.mit.edu/reference/other/xml.html

ABG

[Abraham Getzler]

P.S.  If you're generating the XML, you might want to fix

<code> ...</coode>

ABG