Re: Java5 Xpath problem

From:
"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:32:08 GMT
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"Moiristo" <R.delange@nospam.cs.utwente.nl> wrote in message
news:ef8oji$lmi$1@netlx020.civ.utwente.nl...

I am trying to evaluate an XML document using the javax.xml libraries,


    You're actually evaluating an XPath on an XML document, not the XML
document itself.

but I guess I'm doing something wrong. I need to get all 'layer'
attributes from the document.


    "layer" is an element, not an attribute.

To do this, I did this:

NodeList layers = (NodeList) path.evaluate("/root//layer",
<xml inputsource>, XPathConstants.NODESET);

Then, I need to use the elements within that layer. The code I use is:

for(int i = 0;i<layers.getLength();i++){
     Node layer = layers.item(i);
     lname = layer.getNextSibling().getNodeValue().trim();
     lsource = layer.getNextSibling().getNodeValue().trim();
     ldest = layer.getNextSibling().getNodeValue().trim();
}

It finds the layers within the document, but when I store the element
values in the for-loop, it stores empty strings (when I call
getNodeName(), it returns "#text"). Do I need to evaluate the expression
differently, because it seems like the elements within the layers aren't
evaluated.

As an example, a layer node:
        <layer>
            <name>
                Name
            </name>
            <sourceTable>
                Source
            </sourceTable>
            <destColumn>
                gcolName
            </destColumn>
</layer>


    layer.getNextSibling(), which you call 3 times, will always return the
same node, and I don't think it's the node you want anyway. See
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/org/w3c/dom/Node.html#getChildNodes()

    - Oliver

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