generate xpath for a node

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shailesh.gokhale@gmail.com - 08 Dec 2005 11:10 GMT

Hi,

Is there an api out there which can help me generate xpath for a node?

I mean I am navigating an xml using sax. On satisfaction of a
particular condition on a node I want to generate the xpath for that
node.

Any information will be much appreciated.

Thanks
Shailesh

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Fiz - 08 Dec 2005 14:12 GMT

Try using XMLBeans (http://xmlbeans.apache.org/).

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shailesh.gokhale@gmail.com - 09 Dec 2005 06:51 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for the info. I am in a process of evaluating.

Will post when done.

Thanks
Shailesh

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Chris Smith - 08 Dec 2005 15:30 GMT

> Is there an api out there which can help me generate xpath for a node?
>
> I mean I am navigating an xml using sax. On satisfaction of a
> particular condition on a node I want to generate the xpath for that
> node.

If you're using SAX, then the parser hasn't kept enough information to
do any such thing. Have you kept the necessary information?

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shailesh.gokhale@gmail.com - 09 Dec 2005 06:46 GMT

Ok so it is not possible with SAX ... any idea if it is possible with
DOM?

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Hiran Chaudhuri - 10 Dec 2005 14:13 GMT

> Ok so it is not possible with SAX ... any idea if it is possible with
> DOM?

What kind of XPath do you want to generate? Why is that not possible with
SAX?

Hiran

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shailesh.gokhale@gmail.com - 12 Dec 2005 05:59 GMT

What do you mean ' ... kind of xpath ' ? The xpath that we usually
use. Like - node/childNode2[0]/childchildNode - etc.

It is apparently not possible with sax because sax is only event based
parsing mechanism. It does not store info on the whole tree unless we
code to do so.

Therefore before coding such a thing I wanted to check if dom can give
me the xpath directly because it already has the tree information
stored.

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