Comments on aftergeek - tech and code: XMLSearch, XPath, and XML namespaces in ColdFusion...

thanks for the tip NS issue was boggling my mind a...

2009-09-22T14:57:59.630-05:00

thanks for the tip NS issue was boggling my mind all morning

Namespace issue caught me out today, thanks for th...

2009-04-06T05:49:00.000-05:00

Namespace issue caught me out today, thanks for the solution, worked great!

Lifesaver, thanks man!

2008-09-04T13:06:00.000-05:00

Lifesaver, thanks man!

Thanks. It saved me time. Andrey

2008-08-06T11:21:00.000-05:00

Thanks. It saved me time. Andrey

Just in case someone else comes across this ... th...

2008-04-22T02:58:00.000-05:00

Just in case someone else comes across this ... the solution above did not work for me in CF8. (I did not try it in any other version.) Instead, I had to specify no namespace identifier.

For example, getting Google Picasa XML and performing an XPath search for "entry": "/:feed/:entry".

To get the "media" namespace and the group element (media:group), use "/:feed/:entry/media:group"

Thanks, Ryan! We haven't moved to 8 yet, but I wil...

2008-03-06T15:28:00.000-06:00

Thanks, Ryan! We haven't moved to 8 yet, but I will definitely keep that in mind.

We also had this problem, we are on CF8 now, so it...

2008-01-18T13:11:00.000-06:00

We also had this problem, we are on CF8 now, so it may be a little different, but the cleanest syntax we found was a namespace of '*'.

<cfset MyArray = XMLSearch(MyXMLDoc, "//*:Response")%gt;

Great stuff - i also thought namespace stripping w...

2007-07-10T07:58:00.000-05:00

Great stuff - i also thought namespace stripping was the answer, but you've opened my eyes to a more elegant solution. Thank you!

Colin, actually I have run into that. Perhaps ther...

2007-05-08T10:35:00.000-05:00

Colin, actually I have run into that. Perhaps there are XML parsing performance improvements between MX 6 and 7 (we only just started to use 7 in production in the last few months where I work), but my experience with extremely large xml docs in 6 was similar to what you describe. Unfortunately I'm not aware of an elegant solution. I'm sure doing searches for explicit paths (as opposed to wildcard searches) would help quite a bit, but sometimes that can hurt the extensibility of the code.

Hey,

I too came to this solution after a lo...

2007-05-08T10:09:00.000-05:00

Hey,

I too came to this solution after a lot of head scratching but now my source xml is getting quite large i'm finding XmlSearch really slow , have you experienced any performance problems?

Excellent solution.

2007-02-28T10:37:00.000-06:00

Excellent solution.

Comments on aftergeek - tech and code: XMLSearch, XPath, and XML namespaces in ColdFusion...

thanks for the tip NS issue was boggling my mind a...

Namespace issue caught me out today, thanks for th...

Lifesaver, thanks man!

Thanks. It saved me time. Andrey

Just in case someone else comes across this ... th...

Thanks, Ryan! We haven't moved to 8 yet, but I wil...

We also had this problem, we are on CF8 now, so it...

Great stuff - i also thought namespace stripping w...

Colin, actually I have run into that. Perhaps ther...

Hey,I too came to this solution after a lo...

Excellent solution.

Hey,

I too came to this solution after a lo...