RE: xpaths and regex

2007-07-24 Thread Ben Nadel
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

RE: xpaths and regex

2007-07-24 Thread Ben Nadel
:[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

Re: xpaths and regex

2007-07-24 Thread Ian Skinner
There are regex 'functions' in the newest specification of XML|XSLT|XPATH. But the xml parser used in CF as of version seven does not support them. I once had an extensive discussion with somebody on the Adobe Forums about code he was running in a late model XML editor the used Regex and how

RE: xpaths and regex

2007-07-24 Thread Brad Wood
] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 3:34 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: xpaths and regex Yeah, this does work: cfxml variable=xmlData root a1Meep/a1 a2Meep/a2 a3 b1Dink/b1 b2Meep/b2

RE: xpaths and regex

2007-07-24 Thread Ben Nadel
? www.bennadel.com/ask-ben/ -Original Message- From: Brad Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 4:40 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: xpaths and regex Good to know. I need my wildcard to be WITHIN the text though. For instance, give me all nodes whose xmltext includes the text

RE: xpaths and regex

2007-07-24 Thread Brad Wood
: Ben Nadel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 3:57 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: xpaths and regex I am not finding any thing on this, at least not in ColdFusion. It looks like there are Full Text things for Xpath that work like RegEx, but not that I can figure out

Re: xpaths and regex

2007-07-24 Thread Ian Skinner
Are you open to alternate techniques then xmlSearch()? I have done similar work by creating XSLT strings|files with place holders. Then using replace() function, replace the place holder with the desired pattern to match at runtime and execute the XSLT with an xmlTransform() function.

Re: xpaths and regex

2007-07-24 Thread Ian Skinner
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/06/04/tr.html Here is a link to regex capability in xpath and xslt 2.0. But CF does not support 2.0 at this time? Anybody know if CF8 might? ~| Get the answers you are looking for on the

RE: xpaths and regex

2007-07-24 Thread Brad Wood
: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 4:09 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: xpaths and regex Are you open to alternate techniques then xmlSearch()? I have done similar work by creating XSLT strings|files with place holders. Then using replace() function, replace the place holder with the desired pattern to match