RE: Buffer size?

[David Baugh <davidb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott, Mike(LOL that was funny!) thanks for staying with me... 

I have some more information which goes some way to explain my confusion with what I was seeing.

You guessed right Mike this is a feed of valuation data for an insured location, so it does contain a huge amount of data related to its insurability.

I was using the %str function as a quick and dirty way to verify that the data at the given address was something like what I expected to see (for debugging purposes). Part of my original confusion lay in not knowing the limitations of the debugger (being 1024), even though I knew I wouldn't be getting all the data in the string variable. I'm not comfortable with pointers, but in view of what I saw in my log, and in the variable I was using, it appeared as though the buffer contained a lot of attributes that needed parsing out of a huge element(s). This was confusing since I had expected to see values in the Attrs array, but there are none. 

This huge string begins with an element containing header information in the form of a large number of attributes, which extend beyond 1024 bytes. 

<CONTEXT> <RESIDENTIAL_REPORT createdByLabel="Created By"
 enteredByFirstName="xxxxx" enteredByLastName="Underwriter" 
valuationType="7" schemaVersion="20110115" valuati
onId="xxxxxx" recalculated="0" hasMinimalPushPinInfo="1" pr
iceListName="xxxxxxx" htmlWindowTitle="xxxxxxxxx" seismicZone="4" iteration="1"
 ownerLastName="Underwriter" locale="en_US" localeCountry="U
S" enteredByName="xxxxxxxxxxxx" ownerFirstName="xxx" companyName="xxxxxx" enteredById="xxxxx" etc., etc. 

There lay part of the confusion.. why weren't these attributes loaded into the attr array? I missed the fact that there's a <CONTEXT> tag right there, which should have been a red flag....

I've since revisited the wsdl in Soapui. Discovered that the whole thing is embedded in CDATA, which magically disappeared both in the log and the data in my val variable. Ugh ! 

So two questions to put out there to anyone with experience..

1. How to parse XML when CDATA is being used, since the parser won't like it, and 
2. How best to get to the data in the event I end up needing to use pointers. 


Thanks all for the great advice!
 
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