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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 lot of hea...

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.