Creating a tableview from xmlparser function

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hi Corona Team,

I was able to consume webservices in corona using xmlparsing. The data to be parsed is from our online database. However, the limitation i have, i can only parse one id with its content and display it to the user. What i want is, i will parse several ids from our database and display it in a tableview.

According to 3rd party sources, most developers use json tp consume the data and display it in a tableview.

http://www.vallu.in/2013/02/list-view-from-remote-database-in.html

Any suggestions and guidelines are of great help.

Thanks!

#2

The reason most people use JSON is that it’s pretty easy to map to Lua tables.  XML is tougher to parse but it can be done.  There is a blog post that’s a a year or so ago that covered using XML with Corona SDK:

http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2011/07/29/how-to-use-xml-files-in-corona/

One you get the data into a Lua table, you can then use the newTableView widget to draw the data out.

#3

The reason most people use JSON is that it’s pretty easy to map to Lua tables.  XML is tougher to parse but it can be done.  There is a blog post that’s a a year or so ago that covered using XML with Corona SDK:

http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2011/07/29/how-to-use-xml-files-in-corona/

One you get the data into a Lua table, you can then use the newTableView widget to draw the data out.