Grabbing the elements from the XML root node

Question

Hello,  I haven't worked with XML in over a year and I didn't use it much then.  I'm trying to remember the best way to get the values from the root note (not child nodes).
For instance, in the following xml, I want the timestamp and the messageID from stumessages.
I can't recall if you are supposed to use xmlsearch or something else.  I know how to grab the child nodes (for some reason, that part was easier to recall).
<cfsavecontent variable="XMLFile"><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE stuMessages SYSTEM "http://cody.glpconnect.com/DTD/StuMessage_Rev6.dtd">
<stuMessages timeStamp="14/05/2012 08:02:11 GMT" messageID="9768c7201b6f100585fbfa3243489116">
     <stuMessage>
          <esn>0-999999</esn>
          <unixTime>1336982529</unixTime>
          <gps>N</gps>
          <payload length="9" source="pc" encoding="hex">0x3530E2B18801031200</payload>
     </stuMessage>
</stuMessages>
</cfsavecontent>
<!--- Set the XML to a XML parsed variable we can use --->
<cfset MyXMLDoc = xmlParse(XMLFile) />
<!--- Dump the XML --->
<h2>Dump</h2>
<!--- <cfdump var="#MyXMLDoc#"> --->
<!--- Get all Message Nodes --->
<cfset messageNodes = xmlSearch(MyXMLDoc,'/stuMessages/stuMessage')>
<cfoutput>
    <h2>Message Nodes</h2>
    <cfloop from="1" to="#arraylen(messageNodes)#" index="i">
        <!--- The array contents need to parsed so you can easily get at the child nodes children and attributes. --->
        <cfset messageXML = xmlparse(messageNodes[i]) />
        <b>esn:</b> #messageXML.stuMessage.esn.xmltext#<br>
        <b>unixTime:</b> #messageXML.stuMessage.unixTime.xmlText#<br>
        <b>gps:</b> #messageXML.stuMessage.gps.xmlText#<br>
        <b>payload:</b> #messageXML.stuMessage.payload.xmlText#<br><br>
    </cfloop>
</cfoutput>
Best regards
KR

Answer 1

Hello,
I figured it out.
I figured I would update my post in case anyone else was curious.
I just need to add the following two lines into the code to expose the elements of the root node.
    <cfset timeStamp = MyXMLDoc.stuMessages.XmlAttributes.timeStamp>
    <cfset messageid = MyXMLDoc.stuMessages.XmlAttributes.messageID>
The full code follows
<!--- Set the XML to a XML parsed variable we can use --->
<cfset MyXMLDoc = xmlParse(XMLFile) />
<!--- Dump the XML --->
<h2>Dump</h2>
<!--- <cfdump var="#MyXMLDoc#"> --->
<!--- Get all Message Nodes --->
<cfset messageNodes = xmlSearch(MyXMLDoc,'/stuMessages/stuMessage')>
<cfoutput>
    <cfset timeStamp = MyXMLDoc.stuMessages.XmlAttributes.timeStamp>
    <cfset messageid = MyXMLDoc.stuMessages.XmlAttributes.messageID>
    #timeStamp#<br />
    #messageid#<br />
    <h2>Message Nodes</h2>
    <cfloop from="1" to="#arraylen(messageNodes)#" index="i">
        <!--- The array contents need to parsed so you can easily get at the child nodes children and attributes. --->
        <cfset messageXML = xmlparse(messageNodes[i]) />
        <b>esn:</b> #messageXML.stuMessage.esn.xmltext#<br>
        <b>unixTime:</b> #messageXML.stuMessage.unixTime.xmlText#<br>
        <b>gps:</b> #messageXML.stuMessage.gps.xmlText#<br>
        <b>payload:</b> #messageXML.stuMessage.payload.xmlText#<br><br>
    </cfloop>
</cfoutput>