Hi Dan, I'm reaching here, but would it be possible to parse out the section of the XML document in question and work with it as an XML data island? Then you could apply an XSL document to just that block of code and go from there?
That's based only on what I've read, though. I'm not very up on data islands or how to use them. Can anyone shed some more light? Matt -----Original Message----- From: Dan Kemp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 9:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [cf-xml] CF, MSXML & childNumber (oh and depth) Hi all, I've been working with CF & XML for a while now with no problem, but now I'm needed to find out the position a node holds in it's parents childList. Now I want to be able to do this... <!--- Load in the file ---> <cfobject type="COM" name="profilesXML" class="MSXML2.DOMDocument.4.0" action="CREATE"> <cfset profilesXML.async = false> <cfset rc = profilesXML.load("e:\xml\profiles.xml")> <!--- select the profile node which which matches the values we've been passed ---> <cfset thisProfile = profilesXML.selectSingleNode("BUSINESSTYPES/group[@name=""#HTMLEditFor mat(form.oldGroup)#""]/profile[@name=""#HTMLEditFormat(form.oldProfile )#""]")> <!--- get the position and depth of the node we've selected ---> <cfset thisPositon = profilesXML.childNumber(thisProfile)> <cfset thisDepth = profilesXML.depth(thisProfile)> But of course it doesn't work. I could... a) Move up to the parent, loop thru all the children until I get a match while counting. But I don't want to do this as I'm actually going to be doing this in a loop while walking down a large(ish) XML document. possibly... b) Somehow use a fragment of XLS and try and use something like... <cfset thisPosition = thisProfile.transformNode("<xsl:eval>childNumber(this)</xsl:eval>") I think I'm going to have to use XLS in there somehow as that can use childNumber, but how do get it to act upon a node I currently have selected? Without having to apply a whole XLS document to the whole XML document? Maybe I'm having a dim day, but any help would be greatfully received. Cheers, Dan. -----------------------+ cf-xml mailing list list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] home: http://torchbox.com/xml -----------------------+ cf-xml mailing list list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] home: http://torchbox.com/xml
