RE: [cf-xml] XPATH QUERY

[Matthew Drayer]

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Hi Dave,   As far as I know, @* is what you use to grab all of the attributes for an element.  The one part of your code that appears incorrect is the // near your "report" element.  Structure your XPATH like this:   //reportGroup[@name="one"]/report/@*   and it should work fine.   This will return all of the attributes for the report element(s) living inside your reportGroup element with an name attribute holding the value of "one".   To get more than one specific attribute, you can specify each one with a separate XPATH expression (as with .../report/@name)   Matt   Matthew Drayer Web Development Coordinator HCPro / Opus Communications Marblehead MA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Dave McLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:25 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [cf-xml] XPATH QUERY Thanks Matthew,   However you appear to be suggesting that I use...   //reportGroup[@name="one"]//report/@*   which appears to be incorrect.   //reportGroup[@name="one"]/report/@name gives me the name attribute from the report elements that belong to the report group with name = "one"   what I want to do is   a) get all the attributes for these reports b) get more than one specific attribute for these reports   Cheers   Dave -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Drayer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 January 2002 17:43 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [cf-xml] XPATH QUERY to get all attributes for an element at any level:   //element/@* -----Original Message----- From: Dave McLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 12:45 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [cf-xml] XPATH QUERY So if I need to take this one step further how do I get all the attributes back for the report or more than one specific attribute?   I hope you will have some patience with me, I'm at the bottom of my learning curve on xpath. I've been using the help from the MS XML SDK but its not easy to find simple answers to simple questions.   Cheers   Dave -----Original Message----- From: Blitz, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 January 2002 15:06 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [cf-xml] XPATH QUERY Try "//reportGroup[@name="one"]/report/@name"   Rob Blitz Team Leader Web Application Development Team RWD Technologies, MIS 410.884.5063 (Office phone) 410.884.2749 (Office fax) 39:12:42.426N 76:51:42.808W (ICBM) -----Original Message----- From: Dave McLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 9:56 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [cf-xml] XPATH QUERY   Hi,   I have an XML file like the one below and I want to write an xpath query to bring back the report names of all the reports in the reportgroup where name = 'one'.   If I do //reportGroup[@name='one'] then I get data back for all the reports but only the text data such as that in <FieldList>. All I want is the name attribute for each report.   Can anyone help?   Thanks   Dave   <reports>  <reportGroup name="one">     <FieldList>f1,f2,f3,f4</FieldList> ...   <report Name="a">   </report>   <report Name="b"> ...   </report>  </reportGroup>  <reportGroup name="two">   <report Name="c"> ...   </report>  </reportGroup> </reports>   David McLean Foundation Network Limited Tel:        +44(0) 870 601 1090 Mobile:   +44(0) 788 162 4338 Mailto:    [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.foundation-network.com Relay(tm) - Partner Relationships- Managed