Another suggestion which may or may not be possible - depending on the source of the xml document is to have an empty xml element passed through if there is no logo as opposed to not having the element present at all. This should negate the need to check for the element existence.
Kola >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Bailey, Neal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 22 September 2003 14:48 >> To: CF-Talk >> Subject: RE: Parsing XML in ColdFusion - Help!! >> >> Hey Guys, >> >> Thanks for the help... I was finally able to get it working. But now I >> have >> a new problem. The xml pages are built dynamically and are regularly >> updated. I am running into an error where if I call for an Element called >> "logo" and it does not exist I will receive an error. The error message >> reads as: >> >> "Element Logo.XMLTEXT is undefined >> in a Java object of type class coldfusion.xml.XmlNodeMap" >> >> The reason I get the error is because the logo element is sometimes not >> there because there might not be a logo for the particular document. >> >> I cannot seem to figure out how to look for the Element and check if it >> exists before processing and then if it does not exist don't process. >> >> If anyone has any ideas on how to do this I would be grateful. >> >> Sorry if this seems like noobi stuff, I know nothing of xml. But I'm >> learning... >> >> Thanks, >> - Neal >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 5:34 PM >> To: CF-Talk >> Subject: Re: Parsing XML in ColdFusion - Help!! >> >> Here's an example of getting the name out: >> >> <cffile action="read" file="C:\cfusionmx\wwwroot\test.xml" >> variable="XMLFileText"> >> >> <cfset myXMLDocument=XmlParse(XMLFileText)> >> >> <cfset name = xmlSearch(myXMLDocument, "//benefitDocument/Name")> >> >> <cfoutput> >> #name[1].XmlText# >> </cfoutput> >> >> BTW, that XML file is horribly malformed. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Bailey, Neal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Thursday, September 18, 2003 2:37 pm >> Subject: Parsing XML in ColdFusion - Help!! >> >> > Hello everyone... >> > >> > This is my first post to the list... >> > >> > Hopefully someone here can help me out. I'm pretty new to XML and >> > I need to >> > parse an xml page so that I can extract the information out of it and >> > include this information into a different page using ColdFusion MX >> > 6.1. >> > >> > I think my main problem is just understating how it all works using >> > ColdFusion. I cannot fine many resources on the net that can help >> > explainhow to do this. All I need to do is extract very little >> > data out of a XML >> > file. Almost like a news feed. >> > >> > Does anyone know of any useful resources that explain Parsing XML >> > usingColdFusion MX 6.1? >> > >> > The file I'm trying to parse is below. The only information I need to >> > extract is the Name, TagLine and Details. I then want to show this >> > information on a new page. 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