RE: [castor-dev] Counting Number of Occurences in XML

[Leeuw van der, Tim]

Use XPath expressions for that.   Cheers,   --Tim   From: Saurabh Agrawal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 11 januari 2006 17:28 To: user@castor.codehaus.org Cc: dev@castor.codehaus.org Subject: [castor-dev] Counting Number of Occurences in XML   Hi everyone,   I have a well formed XML but not a well formatted XML like "   <locale>DE         </locale><a> dfsf</a><locale> FR</locale> <b>ddsdd</b>                       <locale>DE </locale>     Now my requirement is to counter number of occurents in locale node for DE and FR locale.   For Example: Number of DE occurences is : 2                     Number of FRoccurences is : 1   since the XML if not formatted so i cant use GREP for following pattern : grep "<locale>DE</locale>" <filename> | wc -l   Can anyone suggest me how can i count number of occurences in such an XML file whose format can change anytime.It may happen that entire thing is one line or may be as scattered as above.   Any quick help would be appreciated.Its urgent for me and i am stuck here.Can anyone guide me what can i do in quick time.   thanks in advance to everyone, Saurabh