But hey, it works now right and I won't be upgrading XFactorStudio for
this site, so all I do is learn a small bad habit, which I will remember
for future stuff anyway :)
Peter Hall wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Peter Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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,
Actually, I might be talking crap about that. It was a year ago that I
worked on the library and, well, you know... I'm looking at the spec
again now and it's quite confusing, so I'm still not completely sure.
Peter
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>
>
>
> --
>
> Glen Pike
> 01326 218440
> www.glenpike.co.uk <http://www.glenpike.co.uk>
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