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[btpoole]

Thanks for looking over it. I am trying to create an array for the date, time, show, network and place them on a program guide that is organized by day. Sorry but I don't understand your reference of dictionary-inside-array thing. Not sure what that means. The idea is create canvas, push day, time, show, network to particular places on the canvas making up a program grid.
Thanks

[btpoole]

Thanks a million. Going back thru everthing once again I discovered something. If I leave out the xmlfilelist in the following, everything works as intended.

daylist=xmlfilelist.DAY@attr

If I use just
daylist=DAY@attr
all works.
Thanks again for looking over everything.

[EnTerr]

I wrote a de-XML-izer for a case like yours, it "magically" converts roXml to a JSON-like structure. Don't know if it makes difference to you - but i'll share it here for posterity, perhaps it will help somebody:

function de_XML(xml):
    attrs = xml.getAttributes()
    res = [attrs]
    chlds = xml.getChildElements(): if chlds = invalid then chlds = [ ]
    for each child in chlds:
        dex = de_XML(child)
        if type(dex) = "String":
            attrs[child.getName()] = dex
        else:
            res.push(dex)
        end if
    end for
    if res.count() < 2 then res = attrs
    if res.isEmpty() then res = xml.getText()
    return res
end function

Feed it a roXmlElement after a .parse() and it returns array (ordered list) 1..N of elements, with leaf nodes folded together with attributes in [0]-th element.

Testing it on your feed:

BrightScript Debugger> xfer = createObject("roUrlTransfer")
BrightScript Debugger> xfer.setURL("http://services.tvrage.com/feeds/fullschedule.php?country=US")
BrightScript Debugger> s = xfer.getToString(): ? len(s)
 947987
BrightScript Debugger> x = createObject("roXmlElement")
BrightScript Debugger> x.parse(s)
BrightScript Debugger> xx = de_XML(x)
BrightScript Debugger> ss = formatJSON({_: xx}) : ? len(ss)
 712524
BrightScript Debugger> ? left(ss, 1000)
{"_":[{},[{"attr":"2014-11-12"},[{"attr":"06:00 am"},{"ep":"17x285","link":"http://www.tvrage.com/Fox_and_Friends/episodes/1065649505","name":"Fox & Friends","network":"FOX NEWS channel","sid":"6978","title":"Season 17, Episode 285"},{"ep":"07x226","link":"http://www.tvrage.com/Mike_And_Mike_in_the_Morning/episodes/1065650083","name":"Mike & Mike","network":"ESPN 2","sid":"10566","title":"Season 7, Episode 226"},{"ep":"20x70","link":"http://www.tvrage.com/Squawk_Box/episodes/1065650146","name":"Squawk Box","network":"CNBC","sid":"18743","title":"Season 20, Episode 70"},{"ep":"10x28","link":"http://www.tvrage.com/Morning_Express_with_Robin_Meade/episodes/1065650204","name":"Morning Express with Robin Meade","network":"Headline News","sid":"19917","title":"Season 10, Episode 28"},{"ep":"08x08","link":"http://www.tvrage.com/ben-10-omniverse/episodes/1065703086","name":"Ben 10: Omniverse","network":"Cartoon Network","sid":"31489","title":"Most Dangerous Game Show"},{"ep":"02x156","link":"h

Dumping as json It's not too readable but if i pretty-print it, here is what's inside xx:

[
  { },
  [
    { attr: "2014-11-10" },
    [
      { attr: "06:00 am" },
      {
        ep: "17x283",
        link: "http:\/\/www.tvrage.com\/Fox_and_Friends\/episodes\/1065649503",
        name: "Fox & Friends",
        network: "FOX NEWS channel",
        sid: "6978",
        title: "Season 17, Episode 283"
      },
      {
        ep: "01x46",
        link: "http:\/\/www.tvrage.com\/bloomberg-surveillance\/episodes\/1065655054",
        name: "Bloomberg Surveillance",
        network: "Bloomberg TELEVISION",
        sid: "44969",
        title: "Season 1, Episode 46"
      },
      '...
    ],
    [
      { attr: "07:00 am" },
      '...
    ],
    ' ...
  ],
  [
    { attr: "2014-11-11" },
    [
      { attr: "06:00 am" },
      '...
    ]
    ' ...
  ]  
]

from what originally was

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<schedule>
<DAY attr="2014-11-10">
	<time attr="06:00 am">
			<show name="Fox &amp; Friends">
				<sid>6978</sid>
				<network>FOX NEWS channel</network>
				<title>Season 17, Episode 283</title>
				<ep>17x283</ep>
				<link>http://www.tvrage.com/Fox_and_Friends/episodes/1065649503</link>
			</show>
			<show name="Bloomberg Surveillance">
				<sid>44969</sid>
				<network>Bloomberg TELEVISION</network>
				<title>Season 1, Episode 46</title>
				<ep>01x46</ep>
				<link>http://www.tvrage.com/bloomberg-surveillance/episodes/1065655054</link>
			</show>
			' ...
	</time>
	<time attr="07:00 am">
	    ' ...
	</time>
	'...
</DAY>
<DAY attr="2014-11-11">
	<time attr="06:00 am">
	    '...
</DAY>
'...
<schedule>

And here is example of using the result:

function dump(schedule):
    for i = 1 to 2 'schedule.count()-1:
        day_sched = schedule[i]
        day = day_sched[0].attr
        for j = 1 to 2 'day_sched.count()-1:
            hour_sched = day_sched[j]
            time = hour_sched[0].attr
            for k = 1 to 2 'hour_sched.count()-1:
                ? day, time, hour_sched[k].name
            end for
        end for
    end for
end function

BrightScript Debugger> dump(xx)
2014-11-10      06:00 am        Fox & Friends
2014-11-10      06:00 am        Mike & Mike
2014-11-10      07:00 am        Good Morning America
2014-11-10      07:00 am        Today (US)
2014-11-11      06:00 am        Fox & Friends
2014-11-11      06:00 am        Mike & Mike
2014-11-11      07:00 am        Good Morning America
2014-11-11      07:00 am        Today (US)

(Here for brevity i printed just the first 2 shows from the first 2 hours from the first 2 days)

PS. (11/13) fixed de_XML to not depend on roAA.count() existence (replaced res.count() < 1 with res.isEmpty() - which works for both roArray and roAA). Also updated example to avoid formatJSON(roArray). Both features are not in current fw5.6

[btpoole]

EnTerr
You have exceeded all wishes. Thank you a million times over for your help on this. Now, I am having one issue. I keep getting an error on the line:

if res.count() < 1 then res= xml.getText()

Bugger keeps telling me member of function not found in Brightscript Component or interface. I am think it is the xml.getText() but not sure.
Thanks again

[EnTerr]

"btpoole" wrote:
I keep getting an error on the line:

    if res.count() < 1 then res= xml.getText()

Bugger keeps telling me member of function not found in Brightscript Component or interface. I am think it is the xml.getText() but not sure.

When you get that error, it breaks into console, right?
Just see what's in "res" and "xml" and that will give you idea what's going on. Either by typing "var" or "? type(xml), xml" (sans quotes) and so on...

I cannot guess a reason for getting such error - to get to that line it has gone through xml.getAttributes() and xml.getChildElements() earlier in the function w/o error, so i suppose xml was roXmlElement type and must have getString(). You called it with roXmlElement and not roXmlList - right?

PS. Oh. OH! I KNOW! You must have called it with a roXmlList, then "attrs = xml.getAttributes()" would have seeded attrs with invalid and that got assigned to res in previous line, hence the error here since there is no invalid.count(). Don't call it with roXmlList, it's not written for that (i can probably expand it but let's take it easy).

[btpoole]

xml = CreateObject("roXMLElement")

I kinda that it was all good since it got thru the attributes but it kicks on res.count < 1 line. It breaks to the console as you thought. When I ?type(xml) I get nothing back.

[malort]

It's due to this line

 if res.count() < 2 then res = attrs

Not sure what was expected with the code, but that will set res to an roAssociativeArray, causing the next line to break.

[EnTerr]

"malort" wrote:
It's due to this line

 if res.count() < 2 then res = attrs

Not sure what was expected with the code, but that will set res to an roAssociativeArray, causing the next line to break.

Uh, no.
It may set res to AA but AA's have .count(), so not causing next line to break.
And roXMLs have .getText() (it's "xml" there, not "res").

[malort]

AA does not have a .count()

BrightScript Debugger> aa = createObject("roAssociativeArray")
BrightScript Debugger> aa["count"] = "no"
BrightScript Debugger> ?aa.count()
Function Call Operator ( ) attempted on non-function. (runtime error &he0) in $LIVECOMPILE(211)

heh, better example instead of setting count..

BrightScript Debugger> aa = createObject("roAssociativeArray")
BrightScript Debugger> aa["what"] = "no"
BrightScript Debugger> ?aa.count()
Member function not found in BrightScript Component or interface. (runtime error &hf4) in $LIVECOMPILE(221)

BrightScript Debugger> aa = {}
BrightScript Debugger> ?aa.count()
Member function not found in BrightScript Component or interface. (runtime error &hf4) in $LIVECOMPILE(224)
BrightScript Debugger> a = []
BrightScript Debugger> ?a.count()
 0

"EnTerr" wrote:

"malort" wrote:
It's due to this line

 if res.count() < 2 then res = attrs

Not sure what was expected with the code, but that will set res to an roAssociativeArray, causing the next line to break.

Uh, no.
It may set res to AA but AA's have .count(), so not causing next line to break.
And roXMLs have .getText() (it's "xml" there, not "res").

[RokuMarkn]

EnTerr, what firmware version are you running? AAs do not have a count() method in 5.6, but you may see it if you're running later beta firmware.

--Mark