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Search XML document using a variable

midasxl	23 Jun, 2009 - 10:17 AM Post #1
D.I.C Head Joined: 3 Dec, 2008 Posts: 125 Thanked: 1 times My Contributions	Hello and thanks for your time. I have a coldfusion component that searches an xml document for a very specific child element. It finds it just fine. What I would like to do is use a variable as part of the search. The value of the variable is dependent upon what the user chooses from a select box. CODE <cfcomponent> <cffunction name="myFunction" access="remote" returntype="string" output="no"> <cfargument name="exploitName" type="string" required="no"> <cfset bigXml="myXmlFile.xml"/> <cfset myXml=XmlParse(bigXml)> <cfloop index="ncdb" from="1" to="#ArrayLen( myXml.XmlRoot.XmlChildren[1].XmlChildren[2])#" step="1"> <cfset xmlNcdb = myXml.XmlRoot.XmlChildren[1].XmlChildren[2]/> <cfreturn xmlNcdb> </cfloop> </cffunction> </cfcomponent> In the <cfargument> tag the "exploitName" will have a value of whatever the end user chooses from a selection box. How do I put that variable in the remaining code to find its children? I am looking for it to take the place of XmlChildren[2]. Thanks for any help you may be able to provide. Cheers! This post has been edited by midasxl: 23 Jun, 2009 - 10:31 AM
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