Re: [dom4j-user] ElementPath to use XPath expression

[James Strachan]

 Unfortunately true XPath (or XSLT-patterns) style matching hasn't been added yet to the ElementHandlers. Though you could always split your XPath into 2 and register the ElementHandler for ("/table/metaData/record") then when you get each Element evaluate the XPath expression "field[@fID=':1']" Another approach, if you don't want to splitup your XPaths, is to just register an ElementHandler and on each Element perform an XPath test. Though the previous suggestion will be a bit more efficient, since most of the XPath has already been evaluated for you. James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Benjamin Kopic To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 1:15 PM Subject: [dom4j-user] ElementPath to use XPath expression Hi I am trying to use XPath expression as the path value when registering ElementHandler, and it seems that ElementPath is not an equivalent to XPath (which makes sense). However, I need to get the below test to work:   public void testXPath() {     SAXReader saxReader = new SAXReader();     FieldMetaDataHandler fmdh0 = new FieldMetaDataHandler();     saxReader.addHandler("/table/metaData/record/field[@fID=':1']", fmdh);     try {       saxReader.read(TEST_DOC_URL);     } catch(DocumentException de) {       System.out.println("Problem reading: " + TEST_DOC_URL);       throw de;     }     assertTrue("ID read ("+fmdh.getFId()+") does not match expected (:1)", ":1".equals(fmdh.getFId()));   } Unfortunately, the files manipulated are huge and hence we need to process them only when a particular element is reached. Has anyone done anything similar? (BTW: This is along the lines to James Strachan's message @: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaxen-interest@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00793.html) Best regards -- benjamin kopic m: +44 (0)780 154 7643 t: +44 (0)20 7794 3090 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: http://www.panContext.com/