[thelist] xml and classic asp

[der wert]

just for completeness, for future ref. if anyone asks the same question but 
for php instead of asp, you can refer the individual to this message
note: the $data variable can easily be replace with a post object as was 
from the orig. query
it would be done like so $data=$_POST['name_of_xml_data_variable'];
this code parses the data and creates an array with the data in it which can 
easily be accesssed
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<pre><?php
$data= "
<AddressKeyFormat>
<ConsigneeName>data1a</ConsigneeName>
<AddressLine>data2a</AddressLine>
<PoliticalDivision2>data3a</PoliticalDivision2>
<PoliticalDivision1>data4a</PoliticalDivision1>
<PostcodePrimaryLow>data5a</PostcodePrimaryLow>
<PostcodeExtendedLow>data6a</PostcodeExtendedLow>
<CountryCode>data7a</CountryCode>
</AddressKeyFormat>
<AddressKeyFormat>
<ConsigneeName>data1b</ConsigneeName>
<AddressLine>data2b</AddressLine>
<PoliticalDivision2>data3b</PoliticalDivision2>
<PoliticalDivision1>data4b</PoliticalDivision1>
<PostcodePrimaryLow>data5b</PostcodePrimaryLow>
<PostcodeExtendedLow>data6b</PostcodeExtendedLow>
<CountryCode>data7b</CountryCode>
</AddressKeyFormat>";

preg_match_all("|<([^>]+)>(.*)</[^>]+>|U", $data, $out, PREG_SET_ORDER);
$c =0; $number_of_entries = (count($out)/7);

for ($a = 1; $a <= $number_of_entries; $a++){
	for ($b = 0; $b <= 6; $b++){
		$ndata[$a][$out[($c)][1]]=$out[($c)][2];
		$c++;
	}
}

//display array struct and data, for example purposes
print_r ($ndata);

//example of accessing data(accesses the first record of ConsigneeName)
echo $ndata[1]['ConsigneeName']."\n";

//accesses the second record of AddressLine
echo $ndata[2]['AddressLine']."\n";

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the end result would be an array that looks like this:

Array
(
    [1] => Array
        (
            [ConsigneeName] => data1a
            [AddressLine] => data2a
            [PoliticalDivision2] => data3a
            [PoliticalDivision1] => data4a
            [PostcodePrimaryLow] => data5a
            [PostcodeExtendedLow] => data6a
            [CountryCode] => data7a
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [ConsigneeName] => data1b
            [AddressLine] => data2b
            [PoliticalDivision2] => data3b
            [PoliticalDivision1] => data4b
            [PostcodePrimaryLow] => data5b
            [PostcodeExtendedLow] => data6b
            [CountryCode] => data7b
        )

)

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