Hi,
thanks for your question.
Currently I don’t have plans to extend the import possibilities for XML files, simply because there’s no real need for it for the majority of users. Most of them just need import from Excel (through CSV) or websites (through HTML).
And importing XML files in a custom format would also require some custom and advanced import logic, which I simply can not provide or develop.
My suggestion, if you really need to work with custom XML files, is to maybe develop a custom import filter, which you can hook into WP-Table Reloaded (of course I’ll gladly add necessary plugin hooks, if needed ones are missing). Another idea might be a “transcoder” which imports the XML file and returns a CSV file which then can be imported into WP-Table Reloaded.
Best wishes,
Tobias
So I think I may be trying to do something similar, and surely over my head. My site is about credit cards. The credit cards companies are willing (want to) provide me with certain key info via an xml feed. It is a lot easier than writing it myself. I want to replace my “Other Key Benefits” column with one that says something like “Details from the Issuer” and just feed in their info. I have asked them to create javascript code for me to plop in, but they don’t want to.
They say “Using CKAN API is simple – your website makes an HTTPS request to one of the API URLs on affiliate.creditkarma.com, and offers are returned in either XML or JSON”
Not simple for me.
For example, if I called this XML:
https://affiliate.creditkarma.com/api/v1/offers/card/CCAmericanExpressCard54-xml?pubKey=JIA7EF9VEK5X0R5J
It would return a page with a lot of data. I would want to capture the data inside the “<long>” field and drop it into a single cell.
Is there a way to make this work? My skills are limited. I wrote the entire site myself, though made heavy use of online tutorials, plug ins, etc.
Thanks!
Hi,
no, sorry, this is not possible with WP-Table Reloaded, and WP-Table Reloaded is probably the wrong tool for this. You will need to develop a custom solution with PHP and some XML parser.
Regards,
Tobias
