Good to know. I need my wildcard to be WITHIN the text though. For instance, give me all nodes whose xmltext includes the text "spid=100".
Can you do: <cfset arrNodes = XmlSearch( xmlData, "//*[ text() = '*spid=100*' ]" ) /> ~Brad -----Original Message----- From: Ben Nadel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 3:34 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: xpaths and regex Yeah, this does work: <cfxml variable="xmlData"> <root> <a1>Meep</a1> <a2>Meep</a2> <a3> <b1>Dink</b1> <b2>Meep</b2> </a3> <a4>Blam</a4> </root> </cfxml> <cfset arrNodes = XmlSearch( xmlData, "//*[ text() = 'Meep' ]" ) /> <cfdump var="#arrNodes#" /> Gets any node with value = "Meep". ....................... Ben Nadel Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX7 Developer www.bennadel.com Need ColdFusion Help? www.bennadel.com/ask-ben/ -----Original Message----- From: Ben Nadel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 4:28 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: xpaths and regex Brad, You can use * for the node name, but not sure about any regular expressions. If you are interested, I just wrote an introductory tutorial on Xpath in XmlSearch() and I don't remember seeing anything about RegEx as I was learning: http://www.bennadel.com/index.cfm?dax=blog:827.view If you are looking for a value-based node, you might be able to rock something like: //*[ text() = 'TARGET_TEXT' ] Not sure if you can use Text() predicate in conjunction with a * wild card - haven't tried it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:284462 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
