Determines the type of an XML document object node.

XML Functions

isXmlAttribute isXmlDoc isXmlElem isXmlNode isXmlRoot xmlChildPos xmlValidate

ColdFusion MX 7: Added this function.

XmlGetNodeType(xmlNode)

A string identifying the XML node type. The following values are valid: ATTRIBUTE_NODE CDATA_SECTION_NODE COMMENT_NODE DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE DOCUMENT_NODE DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE ELEMENT_NODE ENTITY_NODE ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE NOTATION_NODE PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE TEXT_NODE If the argument is not a document object node, the function generates an error.

The XmlGetNodeType function can determine the types of the nodes returned by the XmlSearch function, or the types of the entries in an element’s XmlNodes array.

The following example checks the node types of various parts of an XML document object:

<!--- Create an XML document object ---> 
<cfxml variable="xmlobject"> 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<order id="4323251"> 
    <customer firstname="Philip" lastname="Cramer" accountNum="21"/> 
    <items> 
        <item id="43"> 
            <!-- This item is coded to show several node types --> 
            <![CDATA["Our Best" hammer & chisel set!!!]]> Imported from France 
            <quantity>1</quantity> 
            <unitprice>15.95</unitprice> 
        </item> 
    </items> 
</order> 
</cfxml> 
 
<!--- Display the node types ---> 
<cfoutput> 
<h3>Node Types</h3> 
xmlobject: #XMLGetNodeType(xmlobject)#<br> 
xmlobject.order: #XMLGetNodeType(xmlobject.order)#<br> 
<br> 
Now check the types of all the nodes in the xmlobject.order.items.item  
element's XmlNodes array.<br> 
    Note the many apparently empty Text nodes generated by whitespace characters in the XML text source.<br><br> 
<cfset descnodes=xmlobject.order.items.item.XmlNodes> 
<cfloop from="1" to="#ArrayLen(descnodes)#" index="i"> 
    #i# Node type is: #XMLGetNodeType(descnodes[i])#<br> 
    #i# Node name is: #descnodes[i].XmlName#<br> 
    <cfif (descnodes[#i#].XmlValue NEQ "")> 
        #i# Node value is: #descnodes[i].XmlValue#<br> 
    </cfif> 
    <br> 
</cfloop> 
</cfoutput>