Tony,
Yea, I'm going to have to go back and hit the books (aka docs). I got this to
work for your example, but can't not get some of my stuff to work, which is only
a little more complicated, i.e., I use "and" as part of my selection criteria.
However, to answer your question, I'm using the dom4j-full.jar dated 9/24/02
(one of the daily builds, as I was having problems with the XMLWriter on another
problem). I'm not sure what version of jaxen it's using (when I unpack the jar,
it appears the dates on the jaxen classes are 4/26/02)
good luck
steve
BtOW wrote:
> Steve, thanks for your prompt response. I can see the quotes make better
> sense. However, it still won't work on my machine - it's failing to do the
> substitution. I'd expect getText() to return the string with the
> substitution in place already.
>
> To illustrate, I've changed the System.out.println()s to:
>
> System.out.println("A " + xp.getText());
> System.out.println("B " + doc.valueOf(xp.getText()));
>
> The output I get is:
>
> A /StateTable/Action[InputEvent="Cash"]/ProcessFile
> B Cash.xsl
> A /StateTable/Action[InputEvent="$x"]/ProcessFile
> B
>
> Maybe I'm using a different version. I have jaxen-1.0-FCS and
> dom4j-patched-1.3
>
> Cheers
>
> Tony
>
> > Tony,
> >
> > There was an error in James example. Replace your line with this:
> > "/StateTable/Action[InputEvent=\"$x\"]/ProcessFile",
> >
> > with the escaped quotes around the variable, and it works fine. I get
> > "Cash.xsl" as the output.
> >
> > steve
> >
> > Tony Ms wrote:
> >
> > > Back in May, James Strachan answered a query with this:
> > >
> > > Yes its very possible indeed. The trick is to use XPath variables. e.g.
> > >
> > > import org.jaxen.SimpleVariableContext;
> > >
> > > SimpleVariableContext variables = new SimpleVariableContext();
> > > XPath xpath = doc.createXPath( "//foo[@doo=$x]" );
> > > xpath.setVariableContext( variables );
> > >
> > > Then you can set whatever variable value you want for 'x' and apply the
> > > XPath to any node.
> > >
> > > variables.setVariableValue( "x", "abc" );
> > > List answer = xpath.selectNodes( document );
> > > List answer = xpath.selectNodes( someNode );
> > >
> > > I've been trying to get this to go, and having a problem. Here is my
> > > program:
> > >
> > > import java.io.*;
> > > import java.util.*;
> > > import org.dom4j.*;
> > > import org.dom4j.io.*;
> > > import org.dom4j.xpath.*;
> > > import org.jaxen.SimpleVariableContext;
> > >
> > > public class XPathTest {
> > > static String s1 = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>";
> > > static String s2 = "<StateTable>";
> > > static String s3 = "<Action>";
> > > static String s4 = "<InputEvent>Cash</InputEvent>";
> > > static String s5 = "<ProcessFile>Cash.xsl</ProcessFile>";
> > > static String s6 = "</Action>";
> > > static String s7 = "</StateTable>";
> > >
> > > public static void main(String[] args){
> > > (new XPathTest()).go(s1+s2+s3+s4+s5+s6+s7,
> > > "/StateTable/Action[InputEvent=\"Cash\"]/ProcessFile",
> > > "n/a");
> > > (new XPathTest()).go(s1+s2+s3+s4+s5+s6+s7,
> > > "/StateTable/Action[InputEvent=$x]/ProcessFile",
> > > "Cash");
> > > }
> > >
> > > void go(String theXML, String expr, String para){
> > > try
> > > {
> > > SAXReader reader = new SAXReader(false);
> > > Document doc = reader.read(new StringReader(theXML));
> > > XPath xp = doc.createXPath(expr);
> > > SimpleVariableContext vc = new SimpleVariableContext();
> > > xp.setVariableContext(vc);
> > > vc.setVariableValue("x", para);
> > > System.out.println(doc.valueOf(xp.getText()));
> > > }
> > > catch (Exception e)
> > > {
> > > e.printStackTrace(System.out);
> > > }
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> > > The first call to go(), not using a variable, works fine. The second
> bombs
> > > with:
> > >
> > > org.dom4j.XPathException: Exception occurred evaluting XPath:
> > > /StateTable/Action
> > > [InputEvent=$x]/ProcessFile. Exception: Variable {null}:x
> > >
> > > I'd much appreciate some assistance in finding out what's wrong.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Tony
>
> > > dom4j-user mailing list
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> >
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