Right, but dot notation is specific to CF. I'm writing a CFML
implementation of the Lexus/XUpdate recommendation, and I want to keep the
XML extraction as standard as possible.
Thanks for the info, though.
>As you said, xmlSearch doesn't support attributes as an endpoint so whatever
>results you get from using an xpath that searches for an attribute is
>totally useless, regardless if it is an empty string or empty array. Really
>it should throw an error.
>
>Besides, for stuff like that you can just do
>
>xmlDoc.addresses.address[1].xmlAttributes.city
>
>Much faster than using xpath. XPath is going to be slower than dot notation
>so only use it when you really need it.
>
>HTH,
>
>Sam
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>From: Alexander Sherwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 3:59 PM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: XMLSearch() woes
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>If you do the following:
>
>XMLSearch(xmlDoc, '/addresses/address[1]/@city'),
>
>you get back an array with one element that contains an empty string.
>Wouldn't you expect it to either return and empty array (because it found
>nothing), or an array with the value of the attribute? I know the docs
>state that XMLSearch returns and XMLElement object, but in this case, it
>most certainly does not!
>
>Anyone have the same problem?!
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