Hi,
Your query works fine, thanks for that :)
I guess the online tool is useful, but will treat results with some
scepticism and will try to get my head around axes and nodes, etc. a
bit more...
Cheers
Glen
Peter Hall wrote:
In XPath 1.0, an attribute is an axis, not a node, and so cannot be
used as a context node. (ie the self axis that you are attempting to
access with "." does not exist). I could be wrong on this, but I
implemented my own xpath library for AS3 from the w3c spec, without
referencing the xfactorstudio code, and it does not work either
(actually it throws an error).
I wonder if the test site that you mention is completely compliant.
For example certain XPath 2.0 features such as "a/(b | c)" work in
there, but are not valid in XPath 1.0, so it's possible that they
support more than is required.
Anyway, the following will work instead:
//*[contains(@file, '.swf')]/@file
Peter
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Glen Pike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hmmm,
Seems my original reply did not go to the list:
Here is the email again, but don't worry too much about it, as I have a
workaround...
(The sitemap snippet is also missing some <activity file="activity1.swf"
type="SWF"/> entries too - I can't just search for "//animation/@file[...]"
)
It's a bit of a sneaky one, but I have a workaround - I just wanted to
flag it up...
Here is the email I sent back to Pete...
I am trying to find all nodes with an attribute called "file" which ends in
(can't do this in XPath 1.0 so contains will have to do) ".swf".
Here is my XPath string;
//@file[contains(., ".swf")]
I am comparing the AS XPath implementation with this online testbed - which
is also very useful :)
http://www.whitebeam.org/library/guide/TechNotes/xpathtestbed.rhtm
My workaround is to pull out all nodes with an attribute called file, then
compare the values with ".swf" myself.
//@file
Below is a snippet of the XML I am using...
<sitemap>
<section label="Home">
<intro>
<animation file="animations/MainIntro.swf"/>
<animation file="animations/AndyIntroDuffy.swf"/>
<animation file="animations/duffy_intro_1.swf"/>
<animation file="animations/duffy_intro_2.swf"/>
<animation file="animations/duffy_intro_3.swf"/>
</intro>
<section label="Geography">
<intro>
<animation file="animations/geog_quiz_intro.swf"/>
</intro>
<quiz file="geography.xml"/>
<activity type="PDF" label="Duffy's Oceans"
file="geo-1-duffys-oceans.pdf"/>
<activity type="PDF" label="Duffy's Coasts"
file="geo-2-duffys-coasts.pdf"/>
<activity type="PDF" label="Geography Glossary"
file="geo-glossary.pdf"/>
</section>
<section label="English">
<intro>
<animation file="animations/english_quiz_intro.swf"/>
</intro>
<quiz file="english.xml"/>
<activity type="PDF" label="A Home For Duffy"
file="eng-1-home-for-duffy.pdf"/>
<activity type="PDF" label="A Sad Story"
file="eng-2-a-sad-story.pdf"/>
<activity type="PDF" label="Duffy's Day"
file="eng-3-duffys-day.pdf"/>
<activity type="PDF" label="Do The Duffy Rap"
file="eng-4-duffy-rap.pdf"/>
<activity type="PDF" label="English Glossary"
file="eng-glossary.pdf"/>
</section>
</section>
<sitemap>
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