Yay for XPath 2, that's good news. Just today I was wrestling with XSLT that needed a Replace function which XPath 2 supports but XPath 1 (for some reason) does not. What kind of language doesn't have a Replace function?
Cheers, Judah On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Raymond Camden <[email protected]> wrote: > > Actually, you want to limit yourself to these - since CF9 is still > xpath1 (Zeus is adding xpath2) > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPath_1.0 > > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Raymond Camden <[email protected]> > wrote: >> You can use functions to get values: >> >> >> >> <cfxml variable="test"> >> <employee> >> <startDate>09-09-2009</startDate> >> </employee> >> </cfxml> >> >> <cfset r = xmlSearch(test, "string(//employee/startDate)")> >> <cfdump var="#r#"> >> >> Docs: http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_functions.asp#string >> >> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Dominic Watson >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> It's getting old in the tooth and could do with some JavaLoader love, >>> but this project can help with that sorta thing: >>> >>> http://betterxml.riaforge.org >>> >>> Dominic >>> >>> On 7 December 2011 21:09, Christophe Maso <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Is there any way to get the "09-09-2009" string using xmlSearch() for the >>>> below xml? >>>> >>>> <employee> >>>> <startDate>09-09-2009</startDate> >>>> </employee> >>>> >>>> I've been doing something like this, which is a real pain: >>>> >>>> arrDate = xmlSearch(xml, "//employee/startDate"); >>>> strDate = arrDate[1].XmlText; >>>> >>>> It seems that xmlSearch() must always return an array and is unable to >>>> return a string, which makes sense, but using the above code has gotten >>>> old, real fast. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:349016 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
