RE: MSXML XPath question

[Derek Denny-Brown <derekdb@microsoft.com>]

Rather than walking the children of the results from the selectNodes,
you should just iterate over the selection as a collection object.

I haven't tested this code, but it should work.  Also note that I change
for your 'for' loop to a more efficient 'while' loop.  For large
datasets, using the nextNode() method can be _much_ more efficient.
 
    //add XML content to table
    var oNode;
    while ( null != (oNode = oDisplay.nextNode())) {
      var oRow = tblXML.insertRow();
      var oChildren = oNode.childNodes;
	var oChild;
      while ( null != (oChild = oChildren.nextNode())) {
        var oCell = oRow.insertCell();
        oCell.innerHTML = oChild.xml;
      }
    }

Derek Denny-Brown
-- Technical Lead: MSXML --
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: White, Solomon [mailto:Solomon_White@amr-corp.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 12:56 PM
> To: Xml-Dev Mailing List (E-mail)
> Subject: MSXML XPath question
> 
> 
> Hello all--
> 
> I have a question regarding the use of XPath in IE5+.  What I 
> am trying to
> do is build an html page that loads xml data from a file, 
> then gives users
> the ability to filter/sort the data.  The way I am attempting 
> to go about
> this is as follows (see actual code below):
> 
> 1) on page load, create MSXML2.DOMDocument object, load data, 
> set selection
> language of object to XPath.
> 2) Select all nodes ("/") into a "display" object
> 3) Loop through display object, creating rows/cells in an HTML table
> 4) When the user specifies a filter, reset display object to have only
> selected records from original XML object, clear the table, 
> then repeat step
> 3 to display only selected records.
> 
> This all works except step 4.  I do not get any errors, but 
> all records are
> displayed instead of the selection.  BTW, I tried my XPath 
> query string in
> an XPath validation page, and it validates correctly.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> ------CODE SNIPPETS FOLLOW----
>   //this code creates the necessary objects
>   var oXML = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument");
>   oXML.async = false;
>   oXML.validateOnParse=false;
>   if (! oXML.load("test_small.xml")) {
>     alert("unable to load test_small.xml");
>   }
>   oXML.setProperty("SelectionLanguage", "XPath");
>   var oDisplay = oXML.selectNodes("/");
> 
>   function load_data() {
>     //display all data in oDisplay in HTML table
>     //empty the table
>     while (tblXML.rows.length > 0) {
>       tblXML.deleteRow();
>     }
> 
>     //add XML content to table
>     var root = oDisplay.context.firstChild;
>     for (i=0; i<root.childNodes.length; i++) {
>       var doc = root.childNodes(i);
>       var oRow = tblXML.insertRow();
>       for (j=0; j<doc.childNodes.length; j++) {
>         var oCell = oRow.insertCell();
>         oCell.innerHTML = doc.childNodes(j).xml;
>       }
>     }
>   }
> 
>   function doFilter() {
>     //oDisplay = 
> oXML.selectNodes("/Index/document[starts-with(user,'J')]");
>     oDisplay = oXML.selectNodes("/Index/document[user='Joe Blow']");
>     load_data();
>   }
> 
> 
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