Uses an XPath language expression to search an XML document that is represented as a string variable.
An array of XML object nodes that match the search criteria.
Extensibility functions,
XML functions
XmlSearch(xmlDoc, xPathString)
cfxml,
IsXmlDoc,
XmlChildPos,
XmlChildPos,
XmlFormat,
XmlNew,
XmlParse,
XmlTransform
New in ColdFusion MX: this function is new.
Parameter | Description |
---|---|
xmlDoc |
XML document object |
xPathString |
XPath expression |
XPath is specified by the World-Wide Web Consortium. For detailed information on XPath, see the W3C website at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath.
The following example extracts the elements named last, which contain employee last names, from the employeesimple.xml file, and displays the names.
<cffile action="read"
file="C:\inetpub\wwwroot\examples\employeesimple.xml" variable="myxml"> <cfscript> myxmldoc = XmlParse(myxml); selectedElements = XmlSearch(myxmldoc, "/employee/name/last"); for (i = 1; i LTE ArrayLen(selectedElements); i = i + 1) writeoutput(selectedElements[i].XmlText & "<br>"); </cfscript>