--- "Kenji Hollis" <kenji at ptdmicro dot com> wrote:
Hi all you programmers out there
I've looked through the list and not found an answer for this
question,
so
sorry if someone's already responded to this question.
I'm looking for a way to programatically create a list of XPaths
based
on a
given XML document. I can easily create an XPath that will sort of
work
with a standard XML document that doesn't have multiple items of the
same
name. For instance:
<A>
<B>
<C>data</C>
</B>
<D>
<X>y z</X>
</D>
</A>
Becomes:
//A
//A/B
//A/B/C
//A/B/D
//A/B/D/X
My problem is, when I get to this:
<A>
<B>
<VALUE/>
</B>
<B>
<VALUE/>
</B>
<B>
<VALUE/>
</B>
</A>
I want:
//A
//A/B[1]
//A/B[1]/VALUE
//A/B[2]
//A/B[2]/VALUE
//A/B[3]
//A/B[3]/VALUE
I've tried several ways to do this, and I've tried looking through
several
tutorials. I'm banging my head on this one, as this is
programmatically
very difficult. Mentally, this is a piece-of-cake problem.
Has anyone encountered this type of problem, created a piece of code
that
will generate what I'm looking for, or does anyone know of a project
that
has done this?
Thanks in advance.
-- Kenji
See for example the snippet "Build an XPath Expression for a Node":
http://www.topxml.com/code/default.asp?p=3&id=v20010323001030
Hope this helped.
=====
Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
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