Question

I have an extensive menu in which I would like to search for and manipulate menu items quickly. Is it possible to search for a list of ids, lets say something along the lines of

list contains ("0,57,19,22,30,31,32,33,34,36,45,53,63,58,59,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,46,47,48,50,51,52,54,55,16", "45")

example node:

<li class="standby" id="id61">

as of right now I am using a loop in cfscript

        if(listLen(IdsToRemove.List,",") GT 1){
            for(i=1;i lte listLen(IdsToRemove.List);i=i+1) {
                valueToFind="li[@id='" & listGetAt(IdsToRemove.List,i) & "']";
                findNode=XmlSearch(MyNavigation.myMenu,"//" & valueToFind);
                Instance.UDFLibrary.XmlDeleteNodes(XmlDocument=MyNavigation.myMenu,Nodes=findNode);
            }
        }

I am really hoping to search for a list and delete all the nodes at once. thoughts?

Answer 1

You can use contains() in xpath expressions to search through a string. If you treat that string as a list you can skip the outer loop.

var ids = ListChangeDelims(IdsToRemove.List, ',', ' '); // commas to spaces
var nodes = XmlSearch(MyNavigation.myMenu,"//li[contains(' " & ids & " ', concat(' ', substring(@id,3), ' '))]");

ids would be something like ” 0 57 19 ” and concat(' ', substring(@id,3), ' ') would be something like ” 0 ” so the expression above is essentially a long-winded version of ListFind() using all but the first 2 characters of the nodes id.