Determines the type of an XML document object node.

A string identifying the XML node type. The following values are valid:

If the argument is not a document object node, the function generates an error.

XML functions

XmlGetNodeType(xmlNode)

IsXmlAttribute, IsXmlDoc, IsXmlElem, IsXmlNode, IsXmlRoot, XmlChildPos, XmlValidate; Chapter 35, "Using XML and WDDX" in ColdFusion MX Developer's Guide

ColdFusion MX 7: Added this function.

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>