How to read data from XML using ColdFusion

When I try to use the above mentioned solutions that are suggested by Ian & BKBK CF server is throwing an error like "You have attempted to dereference a scalar variable of type class java.lang.String as a structure with members"

It's obvious why you got the error. You were almost there. The tag cfsavecontent gives you a string, whereas you need an XML document object in the suggestions we gave you.

<cfset xmlRequest = XmlParse(strXml.Trim()) /> <!--- Search for the "searchFor" XML node using XPath. ---> <cfset arrSearchNodes = XmlSearch(xmlRequest,"//*[name()='ns0:Incident_Number']") /> <cfset IncidentID = #arrSearchNodes[1]["XmlText"]#>

That would work, but xmlparse and xmlSearch are costly in performance. This is what the intention was in my earlier suggestion:

<cfxml variable="xmlDoc">
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<soapenv:Body>
<ns0:HelpDesk_Submit_ServiceResponse xmlns:ns0="urn:HPD_IncidentInterface_Create_WS" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<ns0:Incident_Number>INC000000021575</ns0:Incident_Number>
</ns0:HelpDesk_Submit_ServiceResponse>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
</cfxml>

<cfset incident_number = xmlDoc.xmlroot.xmlChildren[1].xmlChildren[1].xmlChildren[1].xmlText>