XmlParse |
Description
Converts an XML document that is represented as a string variable into an XML document object.
Returns
An XML document object.
Category
Conversion functions, Extensibility functions, XML functions
Function syntax

    XmlParse(xmlString [, caseSensitive ] )

See also
cfxml, IsXmlDoc, XmlChildPos, XmlChildPos, XmlFormat, XmlNew, XmlSearch, XmlTransform
History
ColdFusion MX: Added this function.
Parameters

Parameter | Description
xmlString | An XML document object string
caseSensitive | yes: maintains the case of document elements and attributes
| no. Default.

Usage

The caseSensitive attribute value determines whether identifiers whose characters are of varying case, but are otherwise the same, refer to different components. For example:

- If caseSensitive = "no", the names mydoc.employee.name[1] and mydoc.employee.NAME[1] refer to the same element
- If caseSensitive = "yes", these names refer to two distinct elements

If the XML document is represented by a string variable, use the XmlParse tag directly on the variable. For example, if your application uses cfhttp action="get" to get the XML document, use the following code to create the XML document object:

    <cfset myXMLDocument = XmlParse(cfhttp.fileContent)>

If the XML document is in a file, use the cffile tag to convert the file to a CFML variable, then use the XmlParse tag on the resulting variable. For example, if the XML document is in the file C:\temp\myxmldoc.xml, use the following code to convert the file to an XML document object:

    <cffile action="read" file="C:\temp\myxmldoc.xml" variable="XMLFileText">
    <cfset myXMLDocument=XmlParse(XMLFileText)>

Note: | If the file is not encoded with the ASCII or Latin-1 character encoding, use the cffile tag charset attribute to specify the file's character encoding. For example, if the file is encoded in UTF, specify charset="UTF-8".

xmlString |
An XML document object string

caseSensitive |

- yes: maintains the case of document elements and attributes
- no. Default.