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

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

The thing is searchable documents have a large number of <frag>  elements of
varying compositions. The <frag> fragment I need to search for has a
variable number and types of child elements. I have 'the' elegant solution -
make an xpath search string out of my search element - and let xpath
implementations do the work for me. I'd be very to know that somebody has
already done that xpath search string generation - something tells me that
this may be a very useful er functionality....

Sanjay   

-----Original Message-----
From: Huaxin Zhang [mailto:hxzhang@cs.ualberta.ca]
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 11:18 AM
To: Khattar, Sanjay
Cc: 'Frank Richards'; 'xml-dev@lists.xml.org'
Subject: RE: Searching an xml doc without using an XPath expression?


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
>