Peter, You are correct. Once I made the change as you recommended it seem to work great.
Thanks, I didn't notice that missing '.' in the second statement. I assumed from the command reference that once you get starting point, it would use from that point forward. Well, you learn something new every day. Thanks for your help, -Drew On Sep 29, 7:11 pm, "Peter J. Farrell" <[email protected]> wrote: > Drew said the following on 09/29/2010 02:03 PM: > > > <cfset step1 = XMLSearch(returnXML, > > "//*[local-name()='StringBarCodes']").get(0)> > > <cfset step2 = XMLSearch(step1, "//*[local-name()='Type']").get(0).XmlText> > > Your XPath isn't quite right. The XPath/XML is case sensitive so: > > "//*[local-name()='StringBarCodes']" > > Needs to be (notice the lowercase "c") or it won't match anything in > your XML package: > > "//*[local-name()='StringBarcodes']" > > Also, this expression: > > "//*[local-name()='Type']" > > Uses the local-name() XPath function. This returns the first node found > which in this case is the COMMON_2D (it's the first node with v9:Type > from the root of document). This XPath is *not* searching from the > point found in step1. This is the case because you use the root //* > directive which means it searches from the base node of the XML. XML > structures in CFML are passed by reference because they are underlaid by > Java classes. At this point, step1 is merely a pointer / reference to a > section in the main XML node. You'll need to use the current node > directive of "." before your //* in order to reference from the match > found in step1 or XPath looks from the root of the XML pacet. > > This works: > <cfhttp url="http://www.technicalsynergy.com/XMLSample/fedExSample.xml"; /> > > <cfset returnXml = XmlParse(cfhttp.fileContent) /> > > <cfset step1 = XMLSearch(returnXML, > "//*[local-name()='StringBarcodes']").get(0) /> > <cfset step2 = > XMLSearch(step1,".//*[local-name()='Type']").get(0).xmlText /> > > <cfdump var="#variables.step1#"/> > <cfdump var="#variables.step2#"/> > > HTH, > .Peter -- Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://www.openbluedragon.org/ http://twitter.com/OpenBlueDragon official manual: http://www.openbluedragon.org/manual/ Ready2Run CFML http://www.openbluedragon.org/openbdjam/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
