/feed/id and /feed/title are sort of header information. The guts of it would 
be /feed/entry/id etc.

But none of that seems to work. Not sure why.

I am trying one of the XML Editors to see what they can do.

Wayne Irvine

On 20 Nov 2013, at 12:18 pm, Dale Graham <[email protected]> wrote:

> Try this
>
> /feed/id
>
> feed is the “parent” (start and stop tag)
> id is directly under the parent “feed”
>
> This array you are getting appears to be VERY simple… just one parent and a 
> ton of “children”
> You read from the parent to the child element you want. You can see why being 
> able to “pretty up” a more complex flow would be a problem, but the one 
> you’re getting is fairly simple.
>
>
> so to get id
>
> /feed/id
>
> to get title
>
> /feed/title
>
> etc
>
> Ignore the <?xml line
>
>
> It is helpful if you can get an XML editor that will do “pretty” for you - as 
> this will format things so they are more “readable” for this purpose.  Oxygen 
> XML is great because you can just type in what you think is the Xpath and it 
> will cough up the value (if the path is correct). But it’s also expensive…
>
>
>
>
>> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
>> <feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' 
>> xmlns:app='http://purl.org/atom/app#'xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/'
>>  
>> xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005'
>>  xmlns:yt='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007'>
>> <id>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/X-7L4IiiN1PpoNEoFj3rXQ/uploads</id>
>> <updated>2013-11-18T21:43:35.006Z</updated>
>
> to (making it clearer what is parent and child
>
>> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
>> <feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' 
>> xmlns:app='http://purl.org/atom/app#'xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/'
>>  
>> xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005'
>>  xmlns:yt='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007'>
>>      
>> <id>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/X-7L4IiiN1PpoNEoFj3rXQ/uploads</id>
>>      <updated>2013-11-18T21:43:35.006Z</updated>
>
>
> To get an array of the IDs
>
>> <@ASSIGN NAME=idarray SCOPE=local VALUE="<@ELEMENTVALUE myDom 
>> xpath=‘/feed/id’ type=‘array'>">
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 18, 2013, at 5:37 PM, Wayne Irvine <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to parse some feeds from Youtube's API and not having much luck.
>>
>> The results look like this:
>>
>> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
>> <feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' 
>> xmlns:app='http://purl.org/atom/app#'xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/'
>>  
>> xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005'
>>  xmlns:yt='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007'>
>> <id>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/X-7L4IiiN1PpoNEoFj3rXQ/uploads</id>
>> <updated>2013-11-18T21:43:35.006Z</updated>
>> <category 
>> scheme='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind'term='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video'/>
>> <title type='text'>Uploads by Brandon Evertz</title>
>> <logo>http://www.gstatic.com/youtube/img/logo.png</logo>
>> <link rel='related' type='application/atom+xml' 
>> href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/X-7L4IiiN1PpoNEoFj3rXQ'/>
>> <link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 
>> href='http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX-7L4IiiN1PpoNEoFj3rXQ/videos'/>
>> <link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' 
>> type='application/atom+xml' 
>> href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/X-7L4IiiN1PpoNEoFj3rXQ/uploads'/>
>> <link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#batch' 
>> type='application/atom+xml' 
>> href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/X-7L4IiiN1PpoNEoFj3rXQ/uploads/batch'/>
>> <link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 
>> href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/X-7L4IiiN1PpoNEoFj3rXQ/uploads?start-index=1&max-results=25'/>
>> <link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' 
>> href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/X-7L4IiiN1PpoNEoFj3rXQ/uploads?start-index=26&max-results=25'/>
>> <author>
>> <name>Brandon Evertz</name>
>> <uri>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/X-7L4IiiN1PpoNEoFj3rXQ</uri>
>> </author>
>> <generator version='2.1' uri='http://gdata.youtube.com'>YouTube data 
>> API</generator>
>> <openSearch:totalResults>869</openSearch:totalResults>
>> <openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex>
>> <openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage>
>>
>>
>>
>> <entry>
>> <id>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/dw8EGJGFfzE</id>
>> <published>2013-11-18T11:08:57.000Z</published>
>> <updated>2013-11-18T11:08:57.000Z</updated>
>> <app:control>
>> <yt:state name='restricted' reasonCode='limitedSyndication'>Syndication of 
>> this video was restricted.</yt:state>
>> </app:control>
>> <category 
>> scheme='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind'term='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video'/>
>> <category scheme='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/categories.cat' 
>> term='Entertainment' label='Entertainment'/>
>> <title type='text'>Trailer Princess VIP Party</title>
>> <content type='text'>Preview Big Review TV's exclusive interviews of the 
>> hottest models and the coolest guests at the Princess Torrens luxury yacht 
>> party.</content>
>> <link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 
>> href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw8EGJGFfzE&feature=youtube_gdata'/>
>> <link rel='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video.related' 
>> type='application/atom+xml' 
>> href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/dw8EGJGFfzE/related'/>
>> <link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 
>> href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/X-7L4IiiN1PpoNEoFj3rXQ/uploads/dw8EGJGFfzE'/>
>> <author>
>> <name>Brandon Evertz</name>
>> <uri>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/X-7L4IiiN1PpoNEoFj3rXQ</uri>
>> </author>
>> </entry>
>>
>> <entry>
>> <id>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/FGiypDv_YkU</id>
>> <published>2013-11-15T06:58:37.000Z</published>
>> <updated>2013-11-15T06:58:37.000Z</updated>
>> <category 
>> scheme='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind'term='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video'/>
>> <category scheme='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/categories.cat' 
>> term='People' label='People & Blogs'/>
>> <title type='text'>Webcam video from November 15, 2013 5:56 PM</title>
>> <content type='text'/>
>> <link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 
>> href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGiypDv_YkU&feature=youtube_gdata'/>
>> <link rel='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video.related' 
>> type='application/atom+xml' 
>> href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/FGiypDv_YkU/related'/>
>> <link rel='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#mobile' type='text/html' 
>> href='http://m.youtube.com/details?v=FGiypDv_YkU'/>
>> <link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 
>> href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/X-7L4IiiN1PpoNEoFj3rXQ/uploads/FGiypDv_YkU'/>
>> <author>
>> <name>Brandon Evertz</name>
>> <uri>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/X-7L4IiiN1PpoNEoFj3rXQ</uri>
>> </author>
>> </entry>
>>
>> <entry>
>> <id>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/ZxJRl_YHn8E</id>
>> <published>2013-11-15T01:23:25.000Z</published>
>> <updated>2013-11-15T09:08:28.000Z</updated>
>> <category 
>> scheme='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind'term='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video'/>
>> <category scheme='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/categories.cat' 
>> term='News' label='News & Politics'/>
>> <title type='text'>Example</title>
>> <content type='text'>Example</content>
>> <link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 
>> href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxJRl_YHn8E&feature=youtube_gdata'/>
>> <link rel='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video.related' 
>> type='application/atom+xml' 
>> href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/ZxJRl_YHn8E/related'/>
>> <link rel='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#mobile' type='text/html' 
>> href='http://m.youtube.com/details?v=ZxJRl_YHn8E'/>
>> <link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 
>> href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/X-7L4IiiN1PpoNEoFj3rXQ/uploads/ZxJRl_YHn8E'/>
>> <author>
>> <name>Brandon Evertz</name>
>> <uri>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/X-7L4IiiN1PpoNEoFj3rXQ</uri>
>> </author>
>> </entry>
>>
>> </feed>
>>
>> I'm assigning to a DOM and then attempting to extract and array to get the 
>> element count:
>>
>> <@ASSIGN NAME="myDom" SCOPE="local" VALUE=<@DOM VALUE="@@request$httpData">>
>> <@ASSIGN NAME=idarray SCOPE=local VALUE="<@ELEMENTVALUE myDom 
>> xpath='/entry/id'>">
>>
>> I've tried all sorts of things for the xpath:
>> /xml/feed/entry/id
>> xml/feed/entry/id
>> /feed/entry/id
>> but all seems to give errors or no results.
>>
>> Anyone know the correct xpath to extract an array of (for example) IDs?
>>
>> Wayne Irvine
>> w: http://www.byteserve.com.au/
>> p: +61 2 9960 6099
>> m: 0409 960 609
>>
>>
>>
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