Subject: [xsl] Re: Autogenerating XPath from XML? From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 21:43:29 -0700 (PDT) |
--- "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 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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