I have had problems with name spaces in Xpath... Someone gave me this little gem which searches on the tag name:
XmlSearch( GeoCodeXML, "//*[name()='PostalCodeNumber']" ) This will search for any tag anywhere with name PostalCodeNumber. Not sure if that will work or cause problems as it might return more than one node?? Not that great with Xpath. ....................... Ben Nadel www.bennadel.com -----Original Message----- From: Howard Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 9:45 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: XPath help Anybody else have any clue why my XMLSearch(GeoCodeXML,"//PostalCodeNumber") might be returning an empty string? -----Original Message----- From: James Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 12:40 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: There's got to be an easier way to parse this structure That's strange, because when I use <cfset MyPostCodes = XMLSearch(GeoCodeXML,"//PostalCodeNumber")> and CFDUMP the result, I get an array of length 1, when using it on the XML sample at http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/ On 7/11/06, Howard Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I started noodling through that as you were sending this ... > > It seems like one of the following should return something other than > an empty array ... > > getNode = XMLSearch(GeoCodeXML, "//PostalCodeNumber/XmlText/*"); > getNode = XMLSearch(GeoCodeXML, "//PostalCodeNumber/XmlText"); getNode > = XMLSearch(GeoCodeXML, "//PostalCodeNumber/*"); getNode = > XMLSearch(GeoCodeXML, "//PostalCodeNumber"); > > The only thing that hasn't returned an empty array so far is: > > getNode = XMLSearch(GeoCodeXML, "//*"); ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:246157 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
