Make a variable from a cfscript result?

Question

I've got this on my page: myxmldoc = XmlParse("D:\inetpub\xmlfile.xml"); selectedElements = XmlSearch(myxmldoc, "/ContentThatWorks/Content/ArticleComponent/SubHead"); for (i = 1; i LTE ArrayLen(selectedElements); i = i + 1) writeoutput(selectedElements.XmlText & "
");It displays what I want, but I want to be able to use that value in many parts of the page. How can I convert it to a variable for use elsewhere on the page?

Adam Cameron. · Answer

If I understand you correctly, you want to put the output rendered by the writeOutput() statement into a variable?

If so there are a couple of approaches you could consider.

1) instead of just outputting the value, concatenate it to a variable in the loop, and then output it after the loop, eg:

s = "";

for(){

s &= "stuff to add to string here";

}

writeOutput(s);

2) use <cfsavecontent> instead (which'll need to go around you're entire <cfscript> block, which is less than ideal.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7d57.html

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Adam

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