XML inside another XML -read full topic, I’ll explain :D

Hi,

I’ve been playing around with WordPress and thought about using WP All Import to create a bridge between the site and a custom developed system which outputs XML files.

Thing is, the output of that custom system is a standard XML file, but one of its fields is a link to another XML file with more detail about that item. Eg:

<things>
<thing>
<width>12</width>
<height>15</height>
<details>details_of_the_thing.xml?id=20</details>
</thing>
</things>

‘details_of_the_thing.xml’ contains more properly formatted XML fields. And yes, I know, the people who designed that custom system should have already added the details_of_the_thing contents right into the main XML file, but they didn’t and they won’t.

So I was wondering if WP All Import (or an add-on to it) would be able to parse/scrape that. So, in essence, it would read the main XML file and then read each one of the other linked XML files.