On 07/29/10 07:17 PM, Keith Mitchell wrote: > On 07/29/10 08:30 AM, Jack Schwartz wrote: >> Hi Darren. >> >> I agree that it is very useful to take a path. The proposal you laid >> out looks good. I suggest an addition, based on a useful feature of >> ManifestServ: the ability to add values to the search, to narrow it >> down. >> >> Suppose you have two elements of type X, one with value 1 and one with >> value 2, and you want to retrieve the value of //X/Y but only for the >> second X element. Something like //X=1/Y could specify this. (Pretty >> sure that Xpath has a way to specify this kind of thing, though I >> don't know it off hand.) >> > > I believe the xpath syntax equivalent is: > /element[index] > e.g., > /X[1]/Y[0] > > Darren: > I think the proposal is good - it's close enough to xpath to be > familiar, but different enough to be distinct. I do suggest putting the > "#num" and "?num" qualifiers in brackets, e.g.: > > //obj[?3]/child[#3]/@someclass[0]/myobj.variable > > - Keith
I may be mistaken, but I feel that what Jack is referring to when he says "X=1" is that it's the object which has the value X=1, as opposed to what you are referring to which is X[1] which is the 2nd element (index == 1). Is that right, or am I mis-interpreting what you and Jack are suggesting? Thanks, darren. _______________________________________________ caiman-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
