I just check that out and play with it some. But I don't see that the XPE tool does much for what I need.
I maybe missing the point(?) in your previous message, but that tool does only show the XPath based on the selection made in the tree. The negation was a good sugsestion, and I was exploring the way I can get the DOM by excluding the sublement. But Jaxen and DOM4J are not doing much for that unless I am missing something. Thanks. Regards, Pae > Check out XPE (XPath Explorer) at http://sourceforge.net/projects/xpe/ . > It allows you to load an XML instance and play around with XPath calls > from the top to extract different nodes. Try it out and see if you can > come up with the right syntax. Also, there is a few XPath functions > supported to negate a selection. > > Best Wishes, > Dave > > > Pae Choi wrote: > > Thank you for your reply as well as code snippet. But that's not exactlly > > what I was looking for. > > > > My applogies if I did not explained well in my prevous message. The > > code snippet in your message will be able to get the <ContactInfo> > > subemelement fine. And I have no problem to getting that. > > > > My question was to get the rest of XML DOM, excluding the prviously > > selected sublelement, <ContactInfo>. To wit, I am looking for a simple > > way to get the result without parsing the XML document by excluding > > the previously selected subelement. The result I am expecting to get > > is as follows: > > > > Initial XML: > > /<Patient>/ > > / <Age>39</Age>/// > > / <Gender>Female</Gender>/// > > / <ContactInfo>/// > > / <PhoneNumber>123-456-7890</PhoneNumber>/// > > / <EmailAddress>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</EmailAddress>/// > > / </ContactInfo>/// > > /</Patient>/// > > The result XML: > > /<Patient>/ > > / <Age>39</Age>/// > > / <Gender>Female</Gender>/// > > /</Patient>/// > > Thank you. > > > > Any more comments? > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Pae > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > *From:* Benjamin Kopic <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > *To:* Pae Choi <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > *Cc:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > *Sent:* Sunday, November 17, 2002 4:07 AM > > *Subject:* Re: [dom4j-user] XPath result from a DOM and the Rest of DOM > > > > If I understand you correctly, the following will return <Patient> > > element: > > > > > > SAXReader reader = new SAXReader(); > > Document document = reader.read( new File( "patient_records.xml" ) ); > > Element contactInfo = document.selectSingleNode( "//ContactInfo", > > "." ); > > Element patient = contactInfor.getParent(); > > > > > > Then you can use the Node API to traverse the <Patient> element > > returned. > > > > Also, if <Patient> is the root element, then you can do the following: > > > > SAXReader reader = new SAXReader(); > > Document document = reader.read( new File( "patient_records.xml" ) ); > > Element patient = document.getRootElement(); > > > > > > > > Best regards > > > > Ben > > > > > > On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 23:52, Pae Choi wrote: > > > > /Say we have an XML document as follows:/// > > //// > > /<Patient>/// > > / <Age>39</Age>/// > > / <Gender>Female</Gender>/// > > / <ContactInfo>/// > > / <PhoneNumber>123-456-7890</PhoneNumber>/// > > / <EmailAddress>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</EmailAddress>/// > > / </ContactInfo>/// > > /</Patient>/// > > //// > > /And we use the XPath to only get the <ContactInfo>, e.g.,/// > > /"//ContactInfo" which should get the result as follows;/// > > //// > > / <ContactInfo>/// > > / <PhoneNumber>123-456-7890</PhoneNumber>/// > > / <EmailAddress>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</EmailAddress>/// > > / </ContactInfo>/// > > //// > > /My question is:/// > > //// > > /[Q] Is there way to get the rest of XML document in a simple/// > > / way. The rest of XML document should be as follows;/// > > //// > > /<Patient>/// > > / <Age>39</Age>/// > > / <Gender>Female</Gender>/// > > /</Patient>/// > > //// > > /Any comments? Thank you./// > > //// > > /Regards,/// > > //// > > //// > > /Pae/// > > //// > > //// > > //// > > > > -- > > benjamin kopic > > m: +44 (0)780 154 7643 > > t: +44 (0)20 7794 3090 > > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > w: http://www.panContext.com/ > > > > > -- > > +------------------------------------------------------------+ > | David Lucas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | Lucas Software Engineering, Inc. 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