Question

I am using ColdFusion 8.

I am trying to access my SOAP response nodes. I can’t seem to access them though. What I get is an empty array. My SOAP response looks great. I get what I expect.

You can view the array and the SOAP response here: http://dev.iqcatalogs.com/avcat/myiq/test-11.cfm

I have used Ben Nadel’s blog post as a starting point (http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1809-Making-SOAP-Web-Service-Requests-With-ColdFusion-And-CFHTTP.htm)

I am parsing the XML like this:

soapResponse = xmlParse(httpResponse.fileContent);

I am trying to access the nodes like this:

responseNodes = xmlSearch(soapResponse, "//*[ local-name() = 'exhibitorlist' ]");

Some of my XML looks like this:

<exhibitorlist boothid="104686">
    <eventid>1</eventid>
    <eventcode>
      <eventname>Infocomm06</eventname>
      <boothnumber>1263</boothnumber>
      <companyid>408</companyid>
      <companynumber>173023</companynumber>
      <companyname>AMETEK Hunter Spring Products</companyname>
    </eventcode>
</exhibitorlist>

When I dump responseNodes, I get an empty array. I’ve tried a bunch of things, but nothing seems to get into the array.

Can you help?

Answer 1

have you tried:?

responseNodes = xmlSearch(soapResponse, "//ExhibitorList");

It should return all exhibitorlist elements in the document.