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hml398
Inspiring
July 21, 2010
Question

XMLSearch difficulties

  • July 21, 2010
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This is the XML i am trying to search:

<sds:Student>
<sds:Essays>
       <sds:EssayType>Overcoming adversity</sds:EssayType>
       <sds:EssayContent>one two three four five six seven eight nine  ten</sds:EssayContent>
    </sds:Essays>
</sds:Student>

I have tried both:

<cfdump label="getthis" var="#XmlSearch(xmlDoc, "Student/Essays[EssayType='Overcoming adversity']")#" />

and

<cfdump label="getthis" var="#XmlSearch(xmlDoc,  "sds:Student/sds:Essays[sds:EssayType='Overcoming adversity']")#" />

and nothing gets returned.    What am I doing wrong?

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Adam Cameron.
Inspiring
July 22, 2010

Your first one won't work because you don't have your namespace in there, so it'd never match anything.

However your second one works fine for me..?  Well: it returns Essays which have an EssayType text value of "Overcoming adversisy", which is what I expect you want.

I'm running CF8... what are you on?

PS: thanks pointing me in the direction of the [node='its text value'] thing. I didn't know one can do that.

--

Adam

ilssac
ilssac
Inspiring
July 21, 2010

XML Namespaces and ColdFusion are a bit tricky to work with together.

I'm affraid I don't do this enough to just spit out the solution.  But I know if you Google ColdFusion and XML Namespace you will get several very good blogs that discuss the in and outs as well as how to work with it.

HTH

Ian

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