[xsl] Re: Autogenerating XPath from XML?

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev at yahoo dot com>]

--- "Kenji Hollis" <kenji at ptdmicro dot com> wrote:

> Hi all you programmers out there
> 
> I've looked through the list and not found an answer for this
> question,
> so
> sorry if someone's already responded to this question.
> 
> I'm looking for a way to programatically create a list of XPaths
> based
> on a
> given XML document.  I can easily create an XPath that will sort of
> work
> with a standard XML document that doesn't have multiple items of the
> same
> name.  For instance:
> 
> <A>
>    <B>
>       <C>data</C>
>    </B>
>    <D>
>       <X>y z</X>
>    </D>
> </A>
> 
> Becomes:
> 
> //A
> //A/B
> //A/B/C
> //A/B/D
> //A/B/D/X
> 
> My problem is, when I get to this:
> 
> <A>
>    <B>
>       <VALUE/>
>    </B>
>    <B>
>       <VALUE/>
>    </B>
>    <B>
>       <VALUE/>
>    </B>
> </A>
> 
> I want:
> 
> //A
> //A/B[1]
> //A/B[1]/VALUE
> //A/B[2]
> //A/B[2]/VALUE
> //A/B[3]
> //A/B[3]/VALUE
> 
> I've tried several ways to do this, and I've tried looking through
> several
> tutorials.  I'm banging my head on this one, as this is
> programmatically
> very difficult.  Mentally, this is a piece-of-cake problem.
> 
> Has anyone encountered this type of problem, created a piece of code
> that
> will generate what I'm looking for, or does anyone know of a project
> that
> has done this?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> -- Kenji

See for example the snippet "Build an XPath Expression for a Node":

http://www.topxml.com/code/default.asp?p=3&id=v20010323001030

Hope this helped.



=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL

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