ColdFusion XMLSearch issue

Question

This works:

xmlSearch(thisScheduleXml,"/Schedules/Competition[@id = '58']/Match[@status != 'Complete']")>

This doesn't:

xmlSearch(thisScheduleXml,"/Schedules/Competition[@id = '<cfoutput>#url.competitionID#</cfoutput>']/Match[@status != 'Complete']")>

I don't get an obvious error as such; I just get back an empty struct with the second option.

Answer 1

Try to create the xpath string as a variable like:

<cfset match = "/Schedules/Competition[@id = '#url.competitionID#']/Match[@status != 'Complete']"> 
<cfset xmlSearch(thisScheduleXml,match)>

Answer 2

You can't use a CFOUTPUT tag in a function argument like that.