xml parsing error

[mcb999]

Im trying to use an ID I get in my xml to add it to an <a href="">
link but am having some problems displaying this correctly. If I
display the xml element outside of the link it displays properly.

<a href="/Category.cfm?
categoryID=">#xRows.xmlChildren[name].productID#</a>

But when I add it into the href element like this:
<a href="/Category.cfm?categoryID=#xRows.xmlChildren[name
].productID#">#xRows.xmlChildren[name].description#</a>
#xRows.xmlChildren[name].productID#

it falls apart and displays it like this:

1234">

and the link is:

CategoryID=<?xml version...

How do I get it to display the [productID] only and not include all the xml header elements?

Im kind of new to working with xml so im sure its something obvious im
overlooking.

Thanks

 

[mcb999]

When I look at the source for this this is what im getting:

<li><a href='/Category.cfm?categoryID=<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ProductID xmlns="

http://sitemname.org/Products.xsd">42735</ProductID>'><?xml

version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Description xmlns="

http://sitemname.org/Products.xsd">Corporate

&amp; Video Production Companies</Description></a> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>


So im not getting the data itself, im getting the xml wrapper for each element. How do I strip or convert this?
Thanks

 

[mcb999]

I finally figured this out. Adding .xmlText to the end seemed to fix this.