Question

I can’t believe how crap I am at XML.
I have the following xml structure derived from a larger xml document using xpath:

XmlName   HomeTeam
XmlNsPrefix  null   
XmlNsURI     null
XmlText   France
XmlComment   null   
XmlAttributes   
     alternateId  409
     id           21 

The coldfusion code for narrowing the document down to this structure is:

<cfset homeTeam = XmlSearch(myXml,"/SportalData/Sport/LiveScores/Competition/Match/HomeTeam/") />

Now, all I want to do is access the XMLText value (“France”) and use it in my html.

How do I do this?

Answer 1

Presuming the variable homeTeam is the result of an xmlSearch() call then homeTeam is an array so this should work:

<cfset team = homeTeam[1].xmlText />

Obviously, just be aware that the array length can be zero if the node is not found.

Hope that helps.