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   RE: [xml-dev] Simple xpath software request

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> I have been trying to find a related tool/function for some time (and
> may well have missed it in my search) - an x-path validation tool.
> Such a tool would be capable of validating a given x-path against a
> schema.

Nothing in a schema can make an XPath 1.0 expression invalid. What is
possible is that by examination of a schema you can statically determine
that a particular XPath expression will return an empty node-set. (In fact,
you can do this for some expressions even in the absence of a schema,
examples are "/..", "@comment()", "@x/@y", "item[0]".)

This kind of static analysis is being done by some of the XQuery prototype
implementations; check the XQuery home page http://www.w3.org/XML/Query for
a list of implementations. Similar techniques are also used in the Tamino
database engine: see http://www.tamino.com/

Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com

>
> Is anyone aware of such a tool?  It would be a great assistance to my
> non-'expert' x-path writers (and even the expert ones!)
>
> Mike
>
> At 11:47 AM -0500 28/2/02, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 12:58:41PM -0700, Kris Thompson wrote:
> >>  I must have missed it but I feel like my searching has
> been complete.  I
> >>  am looking for a way, using one of the more popular parsers idealy
> >>  Xerces, to if given a node in a document return the XPath string
> >>  representation of that node.  Something like the
> following would be nice
> >>
> >>  public static String getXPath(Document doc, Node node)
> >>
> >>      where node is the node that I want the XPath
> expression on and doc
> >>  is the document for which this node exist.
> >>
> >>  If this does not exist in any popular parsers than has
> anyone created
> >>  this piece of code for which I could have?
> >
> >   Available as:
> >      xmlChar * xmlGetNodePath(xmlNodePtr node);
> >
> >in libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/)
> >    http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#XMLGETNODEPATH
> >
> >Note of course that there isn't "the" XPath string to select
> that node
> >there is an infinity of those. 2 implementation could return
> different
> >path and both be right.
> >
> >Daniel
> >
> >--
> >Daniel Veillard      | Red Hat Network https://rhn.redhat.com/
> >veillard@redhat.com  | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit
http://xmlsoft.org/
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