Question

Simple XML

<employee> 
    <name EmpType="Regular"> 
        <first>Almanzo</first> 
        <last>Wilder</last> 
    </name> 
</employee>

I’m trying to use CFSCRIPT to test for the existence of the attribute “EmpType”

Tried using isDefined(‘_XMLDoc.employee.name[1].xmlAttributes.EmpType’);
to no avail

Tried using structkeyexists(_XMLDoc,’employee.name[1].xmlAttributes.EmpType’);
to no avail

Any other thoughts?

Answer 1

I agree StructKeyExists is what you want change this:

structkeyexists(_XMLDoc,'employee.name[1].xmlAttributes.EmpType')

To this:

 structkeyexists(_XMLDoc.employee.name[1].xmlAttributes,'EmpType')

You want all but the last item you’re checking for as the first argument.