Hi Oswall, for processing, take a look also at these three projects. They work on top of XML libraries, but provide some automation/simplification/inference.
https://github.com/peteruhnak/xml-dom-visitor https://github.com/peteruhnak/xml-magritte-generator https://github.com/peteruhnak/xmi-analyzer Peter On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 10:00 PM, oswall arguedas <oswal...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Solved > > To access the values of the nodes is as follows: > > yearmem: = (tree xpath: '// year') first contentString asNumber. > > I also edit the other methods of the XMLNode class. > > Thanks > Oswall > > > ------------------------------ > *De:* Pharo-users <pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org> en nombre de > PBKResearch <pe...@pbkresearch.co.uk> > *Enviado:* jueves, 12 de julio de 2018 12:09:20 > > *Para:* 'Any question about pharo is welcome' > *Asunto:* Re: [Pharo-users] XML support for pharo > > > Hi Oswall > > > > Well, you have located the correct node, which is some kind of XMLNode, so > all you need is to access its content. If you browse the class and look at > its ‘accessing’ protocol, you see the method XMLNode>>#contentString, which > will give you, in your test case, ‘2014’ as a string. If you want to enter > it in the database as a number, asNumber will do that’ > > > > HTH > > > > Peter Kenny > > > > *From:* Pharo-users <pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org> *On Behalf Of > *oswall > arguedas > *Sent:* 12 July 2018 18:35 > *To:* 'Any question about pharo is welcome' <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> > *Subject:* Re: [Pharo-users] XML support for pharo > > > > Hello Peter, > > Thanks for your help. > > > > The value I get is: > > <year> 2014 </ year> > > > > What I need is to extract the atomic value of the node, which is: > > > > 2014 > > > > To assign it to variables and create objects. I can not find how to obtain > that punctual value 2014. > > > > The main purpose is to read many xml files and create smalltak objects > with that data, then save them in DB and process the data. > ------------------------------ > > *De:* Pharo-users <pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org> en nombre de > PBKResearch <pe...@pbkresearch.co.uk> > *Enviado:* jueves, 12 de julio de 2018 11:17:41 > *Para:* 'Any question about pharo is welcome' > *Asunto:* Re: [Pharo-users] XML support for pharo > > > > Hi Oswall > > > > What sort of failure did you get? It helps with this sort of thing to > execute the code in a playground and inspect the result. > > > > One thing you need to know is that the result of xpath is almost always > some sort of XMLCollection, even when there is only one element. I would > expect the result you want if you write yearmem := (tree xpath: > ‘cardset/card/year’) first. > > > > Note that you should not need a slash at the start; xpath starts searching > in the children of the top node. > > > > Also you do not need to give every step of the hierarchy; you can always > skip levels provided the result specifies a unique route to the node you > want. So in this case you can write: > > > > yearmem := (tree xpath: ‘//year’) first. > > > > Hope this helps > > > > Peter Kenny > > > > *From:* Pharo-users <pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org> *On Behalf Of > *oswall > arguedas > *Sent:* 12 July 2018 17:09 > *To:* pharo-users@lists.pharo.org > *Subject:* Re: [Pharo-users] XML support for pharo > > > > Regards, > > I practice with the example of the book. I can not read the atomic values > of the nodes. > > For example, with this piece of the example: > > > > <cardset> > > <card> > > <cardname lang = "en"> Arcane Lighthouse </ cardname> > > <types> Land </ types> > > <year> 2014 </ year> > > > > To get the atomic value of the node year and assign it to the variable > yearmem, I do it like this: > > > > yearmem: = tree xpath: '/ cardset / card / year'. > > > > But it fails. How do I get the 2014 value? > > > > Thank you > > Oswall > > > ------------------------------ > > *De:* Pharo-users <pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org> en nombre de > oswall arguedas <oswal...@hotmail.com> > *Enviado:* miércoles, 11 de julio de 2018 20:17:55 > *Para:* pharo-users@lists.pharo.org > *Asunto:* Re: [Pharo-users] XML support for pharo > > > > Thanks Franz and Monty. I'm working on it, everything is going very well. > > The feedback when I master it. > > > > Oswall > > > > > ------------------------------ > > *De:* Pharo-users <pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org> en nombre de > monty <mon...@programmer.net> > *Enviado:* miércoles, 11 de julio de 2018 03:32 > *Para:* pharo-users@lists.pharo.org > *Asunto:* Re: [Pharo-users] XML support for pharo > > > > This is the latest version of the XML/XPath Scraping Booklet: < > https://files.pharo.org/books-pdfs/booklet-Scraping/ > 2018-01-07-scrapingbook.pdf> > > Scraping HTML with XPath - files.pharo.org > <https://files.pharo.org/books-pdfs/booklet-Scraping/2018-01-07-scrapingbook.pdf> > > files.pharo.org > > 1.6 Alargeexample • Siblings.Siblingsarechildnodesthathavet > hesameparent.Thecard-name,types,year,rarity,expansionandcardtextelementsar > eallsib- > > > > > ___ > montyos.wordpress.com >
