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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook

By : Daniel Langenhan
Book Image

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook

By: Daniel Langenhan

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Working with XML


In this recipe, we explore how to use the XML plugin to create and phrase XML structures with Orchestrator. XML is a good way to exchange complex information between systems.

Getting ready

We don't need anything special; however, we need to understand the basics of XML. Take a look at http://www.w3schools.com/xml/.

You should be familiar with the JavaScript concept of functions (see the introduction to this chapter).

How to do it...

This recipe is split into two parts; first, we create an XML document and then phrase an XML document.

Creating an XML document

This is the rather more complex part. However, we will go through it slowly:

We will create a simple XML document that looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8">
<MailMessages>
  <Mail>
    <From>[email protected]</From>
    <Subject>Test message</Subject>
    <Content Date="10/12/12">This is a test message</Content>
  </Mail>
</MailMessages>
  1. Create a new...