Hello all,
I have a stupid newbie question for you all. Ive been learning XML and can see how you would use it in news headlines and as a way to store information (like a database) but why would you want to use it instead of a database. I know that XML can send information from database to database or to to use from application to application (i.e. using a cfml form to read an xml file and using a flash movie to read the same file) but what else can you do with it. I am very interested in the subject. What types of things have you all seen. The books i have teach you all about how to write xml but none of the 3 books that I have on the subject tell me how to use the language in real world applications. Also what types of things have you all seen that integrates XML and Coldfusion (not just WDDX but XML).
Thanks for the help.
DJ
om: Matthew Drayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: [cf-xml] XPATH QUERY
>Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:26:43 -0500
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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
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>-----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)
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>-----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 . All I want is the name
>attribute for each report.
>
>Can anyone help?
>
>Thanks
>
>Dave
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>David McLean
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