Thanks, that should help immensely. Sorry about the no subject. I'll post some working code when I get it working.
Jason >-----Original Message----- >From: tom dyson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 5:27 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [cf-xml] splitText (was 'no subject') > > >Hi Jason > >Sorry for the slow response to your question. > >The character data of a specific element - 'XMLText' in the CFMX model, >'Text' in the standard XML DOM - is itself a node (a child node of the >Element node, to be exact) and is not often sub-divided. >However, there is a >method in the DOM specification for exactly this purpose: splitText(). > >From the JAXP API documentation on the splitText method: > >"Breaks this node into two nodes at the specified offset, >keeping both in >the tree as siblings. After being split, this node will contain all the >content up to the offset point. A new node of the same type, >which contains >all the content at and after the offset point, is returned. If >the original >node had a parent node, the new node is inserted as the next >sibling of the >original node. When the offset is equal to the length of this >node, the new >node has no data." > >CFMX's cut-down DOM implementation doesn't support the >splitText method, so >you'll need to access the relevant Java or COM objects directly. See > >http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/xmldom/quickref/text_splitText.html > >and > >http://www.w3schools.com/dom/dom_text.asp > >for the syntax. > >Best wishes > >Tom > >> How does one go about choosing where in the XmlText of a >node to place a new >> node? >> >> For example: >> >> <cfsavecontent variable="bob"> >> <p>One <strong> two <i>three</i> four</strong> five</p> >> </cfsavecontent> >> <cfscript> >> x=XMLParse(bob); >> </cfscript> >> >> So know I want to add another node (say, another <i>) in >between the i and v >> of the five. >> >> How would one do this? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jason > >-----------------+ >tom dyson >t: +44 (0)1608 811870 >m: +44 (0)7958 752657 >http://torchbox.com > > >-----------------------+ >cf-xml mailing list >http://torchbox.com/xml/list.cfm > -----------------------+ cf-xml mailing list http://torchbox.com/xml/list.cfm
