I think you may want:
if(structKeyExists(AmazonXML.ItemLookupResponse.Items.Item.ItemAttributes,
"Author"))
{
Book.Author
=AmazonXML.ItemLookupResponse.Items.Item.ItemAttributes.Author.XmlText;
}
How about giving that a try...
-- Josh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 8:44 PM
Subject: RE: If the structure exists, otherwise ... consistency needed
> Here's my scratch page, where I'm doing my testing:
>
> http://www.howardowens.com/amazon.cfm
>
> For the current query, look at the "author" field in the CFDUMP (top) of
> the
> entire XML, and the CFDUMP (bottom) of my "book" structure. You'll see in
> the top dump, "author" is there, but in the parsed structure, it is not.
>
>
> Here is the relevant portion of the script:
>
>
> <cfscript>
> AmazonXML = XmlParse(cfhttp.filecontent);
> Book = StructNew();
>
>
>
> // check for author and set value if exists
> if(structKeyExists(AmazonXML.ItemLookupResponse.Items.Item,"ItemAttributes.A
> uthor")) {
> Book.Author =
> AmazonXML.ItemLookupResponse.Items.Item.ItemAttributes.Author.XmlText;
> }
>
> else {
> Book.Author = '';
> }
>
>
> </cfscript>
>
> Thanks.
>
> H.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 1:36 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: If the structure exists, otherwise ... consistency needed
>
> Can you provide a small but complete example of a true and false condition
> of the xml you are working with?
>
>
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