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

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  • From: Huaxin Zhang <hxzhang@cs.ualberta.ca>
  • To: "Khattar, Sanjay" <Sanjay.Khattar@schwab.com>
  • Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 12:17:48 -0700 (MST)

sure, you can use jaxp api.
use  Document 's getElementbyTag("frag")
and then get the child of sectionA from the returned nodelist


On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Khattar, Sanjay wrote:

> 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
> 





 

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