Neither of those work either... Should I strip out certain parts of the results first?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Johansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 4:25 PM Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Parsing DOM Response for element by name > Looks like XPATH has an issue with name spaces. > > Have you tried: > <@elementvalue object=local$packageDOM > XPATH="/soapenv:Envelope/soapenv:Body/AddPartnerMessageResponse/Timestamp"> > or > <@elementvalue object=local$packageDOM XPATH="/ > Envelope/soapenv/AddPartnerMessageResponse/Timestamp"> > > To force xpath to that level > Ben > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Machin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 3:12 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Parsing DOM Response for element by name > > I'm stumped on this, can anyone see what I'm doing wrong? > > I make a URL call and receive XML results. I'm trying to use XPATH as > described below, but get no results. > > The XML returned looks like this: > <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; > xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";> > <soapenv:Body> > <AddPartnerMessageResponse xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents"> > <Timestamp>2006-04-25T21:37:53.484Z</Timestamp> > <Ack>Success</Ack> > <Version>461</Version> > <Build>e461_core_Unified_2718252_R1</Build> > <MessageID>2702</MessageID> > <MessageID>2703</MessageID> > </AddPartnerMessageResponse> > </soapenv:Body> > </soapenv:Envelope> > > This command: > <@elementvalue object=local$packageDOM > XPOINTER="root().child(1).child(1).child(1)"> > > Returns 2006-04-25T22:10:32.234Z > > But > > <@elementvalue object=local$packageDOM XPATH="//Timestamp"> > > Doesn't return anything > > Any ideas? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John McGowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 11:35 AM > Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Parsing DOM Response for element by name > > > > Dave, > > > > XPATH="//Timestamp" > > > > would do the trick. > > > > XPath is a lot nicer to use than XPointer. > > > > This of course assumes that you're using a version of Witango that > > supports XPath. If not, it's time to upgrade. > > > > You may run into issues with namespaces. It might be easier for you to > > clean out all namespace references before traversing the DOM. > > > > /John > > > > Dave Machin wrote: > > > I'm trying to parse a DOM reponse from a web service. I'm looking to > find a > > > particular element in the reponse. I know the name of the element I > need, > > > but I won't always know it's position in the response. > > > > > > For example, I receive the following response: > > > > > > <soapenv:Envelope > xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; > > > xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; > > > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";> > > > <soapenv:Body> > > > <GeteBayOfficialTimeResponse > > > xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents"> > > > <Timestamp>2006-04-05T18:18:00.547Z</Timestamp> > > > <Ack>Success</Ack> > > > <Version>461</Version> > > > <Build>e461_core_Unified_2718252_R1</Build> > > > </GeteBayOfficialTimeResponse> > > > </soapenv:Body> > > > </soapenv:Envelope> > > > > > > And I need the <timestamp> element. I can access it by doing this: > > > > > > <@elementvalue object="local$packageDOM" > > > element="root().child(1).child(1).child(1)"> > > > > > > But I'd like to be able to reference <timestamp> instead of having to > know > > > the root/child relationships. > > > > > > Is there an easy way to do this? > > > > > > Dave Machin > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
