Hi,
Firstly, how do you do an xpath search on just an
element?
<People>
<Person id="282">
<FirstName>Jenny<FirstName/>
<LastName>Ynnej<LastName/>
<Age>1009<Age/>
<PhoneNumber>777 777 7777</PhoneNumber>
</Person>
<Person id="289">
...
...
</People>
<People/> is the root element of the document.
So lets say you have the <Person> element with id =
"282" in an Element object, how do you perform an
xpath *relatve to just that element*.
personElement.selectNodes("/People/Person/FirstName")
works fine,
but
personElement.selectNodes("/Person/FirstName") does
not, so each xpath search is *still* performed on the
document as a whole, regardless if you perform it on a
sub element.
So how do you perform a *relative* search? The "//" is
not suitable here. Example: perhaps <PhoneNumber/>'s
element is 1 -> Infinity and you only want Jenny's
phone numbers and not every one in the entire
document.
And the second question is about namespaces and xpath.
How do you do a search when you don't know what the
xml namespace will be in the document, only the
structure. So it might be <cool:People/>,
<addressBook:People/> or whatever. Current xpath
requires you to include the namespace in the path,
"/cool:People/cool:Person/..." and so on. What would
be the best way to do this dynamically?
Regards,
Joe
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