Without going into too much details, in XmlBeans you can process well-formed documents as well as document fragments. In both cases the type of the document (the one that you pass into the parse() method) reflects the content of your document/document fragment.
If your XML looks like <block><something>abc</something></block> then the type of it will have to contain one <block> element If your XML looks like <xml-fragment><something>abc</something></xml-fragment> then <xml-fragment> by convention gets stripped off and so your type would have to contain one <something> element. This is why it works with <xml-fragment>, because <xml-fragment> is special and says "ignore the root and go one level deep". So you have two alternatives: 1. Use a type that does have <block> as its content. If <block> is a global element then XMLBeans generates the BlockDocument.type for this purpose. Use it in your parse method and then call BlockDocument.getBlock() to get to the content of your "block" element. Notice that this implies you know what element will be returned. 2. Do the "stripping off the root and go one level deep" yourself using a piece of code like: XmlObject obj = XmlBeans.getContextTypeLoader().parse(n, XmlObject.type, null); XmlCursor c = obj.newCursor(); c.toFirstContentToken(); obj = c.getObject(); Block block = (Block) obj.changeType(Block.type); Radu -----Original Message----- From: Ewout Graswinckel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 2:12 AM To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org Subject: Instantiating a section of an xml document Hi, I'd like to know if it's possible to instantiate only a single node from a document. I'm using an xml database to return a node from some document using xquery/xpath. Once I have that node I'd like to use xmlbeans to easily access it. So far I've come up with this: <doc> ...... <block><something>abc</something></block> .... </doc> Class 'Block' represents the block element in the xml. Node n = getNodeFromDatabaseUsingXpath("doc('.')/descendant-or-self::block[1]"); Block block = (Block) XmlBeans.getContextTypeLoader().parse(n, Block.type, null); assertEquals("abc", block.getSomething()); // block.getSomething() == null This doesn't give any exceptions, but calling block.getSomething() simply returns null. I can get it to work if I let my query return an <xml-fragment> element instead of <block>, but this is not desired in my case. Is there a better way to do this? Thanks, Ewout --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________________________ Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by email and then delete it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
