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XML DOM node structure

The following table lists the contents of an XML DOM node structure:

Entry name	Type	Description
XmlName	String	The node name. For nodes such as Element or Attribute, the node name is the element or attribute name.
XmlType	String	The node XML DOM type, such as Element or Text.
XmlValue	String	The node value. This entry is used only for Attribute, CDATA, Comment, and Text type nodes.

Note: The cfdump tag does not display XmlNode structures. If you try to dump an XmlNode structure, the cfdump tag displays "Empty Structure".

The following table lists the contents of the XmlName and XmlValue fields for each node type that is valid in the XmlType entry. The node types correspond to the objects types in the XML DOM hierarchy.

Node type	XmlName	xmlValue
CDATA	#cdata-section	Content of the CDATA section
COMMENT	#comment	Content of the comment
ELEMENT	Tag name	Empty string
ENTITYREF	Name of entity referenced	Empty string
PI (processing instruction)	Target entire content excluding the target	Empty string
TEXT	#text	Content of the text node
ENTITY	Entity name	Empty string
NOTATION	Notation name	Empty string
DOCUMENT	#document	Empty string
FRAGMENT	#document-fragment	Empty string
DOCTYPE	Document type name	Empty string

Note: Although XML attributes are nodes on the DOM tree, ColdFusion does not expose them as XML DOM node data structures. To view an element's attributes, use the element structure's XMLAttributes structure.

The XML document object and all its elements are exposed as DOM node structures. For example, you can use the following variable names to reference nodes in the DOM tree created from the XML example in A simple XML document:

mydoc.XmlName
mydoc.XmlValue
mydoc.XmlRoot.XmlName
mydoc.employee.XmlType
mydoc.employee.XmlNodes[1].XmlType


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