xml-dev - RE: Searching an xml doc without using an XPath expression?

["Khattar, Sanjay" <Sanjay.Khattar@schwab.com>]

Frank,
I'm afraid I wasn't very clear - my apologies.

I get a dom element like the one below in my processing chain 
<frag>
    <sectionA/>
</frag>
 
and I need to search for this element in an in-memory dom document like:

<docroot>
    <part1>
        <frag>
            <sectionA/>
        </frag>
    </part1>
    <part2>
        <subpart2>releventValue</subpart2>
    </part2>
</docroot>

and retrieve the <subpart2> element.
 
Can I do this without having to use XPath like './/frag/sectionA'? I'd like
to be able to search with an org.w3c.dom.Element instance representing the
search fragment.
 
Thanks
Sanjay

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Richards [mailto:frichards@softquad.com]
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 5:11 AM
To: 'Khattar, Sanjay'
Subject: RE: Searching an xml doc without using an XPath expression?


I don't know exactly what you're trying to accomplish, but you always have
the option of using text processing tools to scan the doc. Perl or Omnimark
will do this for instance.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Khattar, Sanjay [mailto:Sanjay.Khattar@schwab.com]
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 7:16 PM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Searching an xml doc without using an XPath expression?


Is there a way to check if a document fragment like 
<frag>
    <sectionA/>
</frag>
 
appears in a document like:
 
<docroot>
    <part1>
        <frag>
            <sectionA/>
        </frag>
    </part1>
    <part2>
    </part2>
</docroot>
 
Can I do this without having to use XPath like ". / <file://frag/sectionA>
/frag/sectionA <file://frag/sectionA> "?
 
Thanks
Sanjay