Bugs item #1116471, was opened at 2005-02-04 21:06
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Steve Carter (cart33)
Assigned to: Maarten Coene (maartenc)
Summary: Problem with XPath and retrieving text
Initial Comment:
I have a Junit test similar to the following:
public void test() {
fiinal String XML = "<a><b>Water T &
D-46816</b></a>";
final String XPATH = "a/b/text()";
final String EXPECTED_VALUE = "Water T & D-46816";
XPath xpathObj = createXpathObject(XPATH );
Document doc = createDocument(XML );
Object node = xpathObj.selectSingleNode(doc);
if (node instanceof Text) {
result = ((Text) node).getText();
}
assertEquals(EXPECTED_VALUE, result));
}
which fails because getText() only returns: Water T
interrogating the node object returned from
selectSingleNode indicates that the expected result is
present as 3 seperate text elements in the content
(ArrayList) member variable
I can retrieve the value if I tweak the approach to use:
final String XPATH = "a/b";
if (node instanceof Element) {
return (String) ((Element) node).getData();
}
If i dont have entity references then the first
approach always works. Therefore this seems to be a
bug, please correct me if i am wrong.
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>Comment By: Steve Carter (cart33)
Date: 2005-02-13 04:06
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Thanks for the explanation. Greatly appreciated. I have not
made myself familiar with the specification so I appreciate
your insight. It just seemed intuitive to me that
selectSingleNode() would return the full value of the node
whether references were present or not. Feel free to close
this issue and pursue it as an enhancement as there are many
approaches to satisfy the solution. I enjoy using your api
and thanks again for the help.
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Comment By: Maarten Coene (maartenc)
Date: 2005-02-12 15:04
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On the other hand, I see now in the 5.7 of the XPath spec
that a text node shouldn't have immediately following
siblings that are text nodes themselfs, so this could be a
bug indeed.
I'll investigate this further...
regards,
Maarten
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Comment By: Maarten Coene (maartenc)
Date: 2005-02-12 14:57
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I don't think this is a bug.
The following happened:
expression "a/b/text()" selects all text nodes of <b>.
Because you have an entity reference in it, the SAX parser
you have used did create 3 text nodes: "Water T ", "&" and "
D-46816". The selectSingleNode() method returns the first
node: "Water T ". So this is correct.
expression "a/b" selects all <b> elements. If you apply the
string function to it, you will retrieve the string-value of
the <b> element. This expression should do the trick:
"string(a/b[1])", as illustrated by the example below:
String xml = "<a><b>Water T & D-46816</b></a>";
Document doc = DocumentHelper.parseText(xml);
String result = (String) doc.selectObject("string(a/b[1])");
now, result is equal to "Water T & D-46816"
Another way is to retrieve the node and ask for the
string-value directly on the node:
Node node = doc.selectSingleNode("a/b");
String result = node.getStringValue();
I hope this helped you out. If you still feel this is a bug,
please tell me otherwise I'll close this issue.
regards,
Maarten
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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2005-02-10 17:49
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This problem affects other xpath query types sch as /a/b/*
etc...
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