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    <p>Firstly, this question requires a bit of introduction so please bear with me. </p> <p>The high level is that I am connecting to a outside web service which will return some XML to my apex controller. The idea is that I want to display the XML returned into a nice tabular format in a VisualForce page. The format of the XML coming back will look something like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;Wrapper&gt;&lt;reportTable name='table_id' title='Report Title'&gt; &lt;row&gt; &lt;Element1&gt;&lt;![CDATA[campaign_id]]&gt;&lt;/Element1&gt; &lt;Element2&gt;&lt;![CDATA[577373]]&gt;&lt;/Element2&gt; &lt;Element3&gt;&lt;![CDATA[4129]]&gt;&lt;/Element3&gt; &lt;Element4 dataFormat='2' dataSuffix='%'&gt;&lt;![CDATA[0.7151]]&gt;&lt;/Element4&gt; &lt;Element5&gt;&lt;![CDATA[2010-04-04]]&gt;&lt;/Element5&gt; &lt;Element6&gt;&lt;![CDATA[2010-05-03]]&gt;&lt;/Element6&gt; &lt;/row&gt; &lt;/reportTable&gt; </code></pre> <p>... </p> <p>Now currently I am using the XMLdom utility class (developed by SF for XML functions) to map this data into a custom object "reportTable" which contains a list of "row" custom objects. The reason I am building it out this way is because I don't know how many elements will be in each row, nor the number of rows.</p> <p>The Visualforce page looks something like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;table&gt;&lt;apex:repeat value="{!reportTables}" var="table"&gt; &lt;apex:repeat value="{!table.rows}" var="row"&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;apex:repeat value="{!row.ColumnValue}" var="column"&gt; &lt;apex:repeat value="{!column}" var="value"&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;apex:outputText value="{!value}" /&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/apex:repeat&gt; &lt;/apex:repeat&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/apex:repeat&gt; </code></pre> <p> </p> <p>Questions are:</p> <p>1) Does this seem like a good approach to the problem?</p> <p>2) Is there a simpler/better way to consume the XML besides writing my own custom objects to map VF to?</p> <p>Open to any and all suggestions. I really hope there is a better way than building the HTML table myself, as then I also have to deal with styling and alignment etc. Thanks.</p>
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    1. COYou raise a very good question. My coworker has a similar issue and I'm completely stumped. Hopefully someone comes up w/ a solution.
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