Raul wrote:
> Given an xpath and an xml document, I would like to create the bit
> vector which selects the characters from the xml document which
> correspond to text which would be selected by that xpath.
> Does anyone have a useful approach here?
(A) It would help if you could supply example inputs (XML & XPATH) and
outputs (char or boxed vector).
(B) Look into x2j . It is an abstraction of SAX, and is more applicable if
you don't have XSLT, just XPath.
Intro to x2j:
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Addons/xml/sax#x2j-XMLtoJ
x2j examples:
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Addons/xml/sax/x2j%20Examples
x2j in action:
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code/Rank_languages_by_popularity#J
You can also search the Forum for references to x2j .
-Dan
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