MACROMEDIA COLFUSION MX 7-CFML Reference page 909

<first>Laura</first>
<last>Ingalls</last>
</name>
</employee>
</cfxml>
<!--- Find the second Status child of the first employee.name element --->
<cfscript>
elempos=XMLChildPos(xmlobject.employee.name[1], "Status", 2);
ArrayDeleteAt(xmlobject.employee.name[1].XmlChildren, elempos);
</cfscript>
<!--- Dump the resulting document object to confirm the deletion --->
<cfdump var="#xmlobject#">
XmlChildPos 909