I don't know if this helps you, but I did a little work with XML and directory structures a while back:
http://www.bennadel.com/blog/503-Creating-An-XML-Representation-Of-A-Dir ectory-And-Sub-Directories-Using-ColdFusion.htm Or: http://www.bennadel.com/index.cfm?dax=blog:503.view It didn't have to identify anything uniquely, but it might help with the recursion. ...................... Ben Nadel Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX7 Developer www.bennadel.com Need ColdFusion Help? www.bennadel.com/ask-ben/ -----Original Message----- From: Richard White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 1:23 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: ColdFuson XML Hi, we are trying to build an xml document that will be used to build a tree (like the explorer tree in windows). it could be an infinite number of rows deep and we are trying to build it recursively through code from data out of a database. the problem we are having is trying to uniquely reference each element. for example we are trying to simply build the following: <rows> <row id="tb_1"> <cell image="onetoonefolder.gif">Once per Subject</cell> </row> </rows> at present the code we are using to get this is: MyDoc = XmlNew(); MyDoc.xmlRoot = XmlElemNew(MyDoc,"rows"); MyDoc.rows.XmlChildren[1] = XmlElemNew(MyDoc, "row"); MyDoc.rows.XmlChildren[1].XmlAttributes.id = "tb_1"; MyDoc.rows.XmlChildren[1].XmlChildren[1] = XmlElemNew(MyDoc, "cell"); MyDoc.rows.XmlChildren[1].XmlChildren[1].XmlAttributes.image = "onetoonefolder.gif"; MyDoc.rows.XmlChildren[1].XmlChildren[1].XmlText = "Once per Subject"; Of course you can see that this is not efficient as if we want to go an infinite amount of levels deep we cannot keep writing: XmlChildren[1].XmlChildren[1].XmlChildren[1].XmlChildren[1] etc... we realise that this must go in a loop but was wondering how we can uniquely name each element and then how do we reference that in a loop. Thanks very much for your help richard ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:292795 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
