ColdFusion 8 problem with xmlsearch or malformed xml ?? access 2003 exported xml

Sweet.  The // did it !!   Thanks a bunch !! On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Dominic Watson < watson.dominic@googlemail.com> wrote: > Two things: > > 1. xml is case sensitive so the 'id' in the XPath expression should be > 'ID'. > 2. A single slash to start an XPath expression basically says 'start > at the root', so '/Media_x0020_Contacts' does not match any elements > (there is no Media_x0020_Contacts element in the *root* of the > document. Either use a double slash to say 'match a > Media_x0020_Contacts element anywhere in the document' or write the > full path to the element. So: > > <cfset contacts = XMLSearch(xml,'//Media_x0020_Contacts/ID') /> > or > <cfset contacts = XMLSearch(xml,'/dataroot/Media_x0020_Contacts/ID') /> > > I'd ignore the validation errors ;) > > HTH > > Dominic > > -- > Blog it up: http://fusion.dominicwatson.co.uk > >