Hi David.
Hope all is good. After a short break there is a wave of question that is arising as I integrate more and more feeds into the system. I hope you can help.
Here is the first issue.
I am getting a lot of .txt and export/google_xml.php type of feeds
I do not seem to be able to parse these.
Do you have any experience in how to treat these feeds?
Kind Regards
Thanks David. I have sent you 1 feed that is driving me crazy...
Hi,
If an XML format doesn't appear to auto-detect correctly, it's most likely down to child elements of each product record confusing the auto-detection logic. An example is where product records contain a number of features, so the auto-detection picks out:
xml|PRODUCTS/PRODUCT/FEATURES/FEATURE/In this example, editing the auto-detected format string down to:
xml|PRODUCTS/PRODUCT/...on Feed Registration (Step 1) would do the trick.
The most likely reason for text format auto-detection failure is quoted text being missed. If the sample data shown on Feed Registration Step 2 doesn't appear to be correct, or the values contain leading or trailing quotation marks, click Back and then manually select the correct format from the drop-down box, e.g. "Quoted Text - Header Row - Comma Separated".
If you're ever not sure of a format or are not able to get a feed to register, if you could email me either a link to an example, or if not too large attached / zipped and I'll check it out on my test server for you...
Cheers,
David.
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