On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 15:33 -0600, Greg Lindstrom wrote: > Hello- > I have a general (I guess) xml parsing question that I hope has an > answer. I am busy parsing health care claim records using xpath and do > not see a way to parse the following (stripped down) file (I've added > lines to group my problem...) > > 1. + <seg id='ST'> > 2. + <loop id='HEADER'> > 3. - <loop id='DETAIL'> > 4. - <loop id='2000A'> > 5. + <seg id='HL'> > 6. + <loop id='2000AA'> > 7. + <loop id='2000B'> > 8. + <seg id='HL'> --------+ > 9. + <seg id='SBR'> | > 10. + <loop id='2010BA'> | Group 1 > 11. + <loop id='2010BB'> | > 12. + <loop id='2300'> -----+ > 13. + <seg id='HL'> ---------+ > 14. + <seg id='SBR'> | > 15. + <loop id='2010BA'> | > 16. + <loop id='2010BB'> | Group 2 > 17. + <loop id='2300'> -----+ > 18. </loop> > 19. </loop> > 20. </loop>
BTW, Ugh. Smells like EDI inconsiderately yanked into XML form. There's another circle in Inferno for people who perpetrate such XML design. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Use CSS to display XML, part 2 - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xmlcss2-i.html Writing and Reading XML with XIST - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/03/16/py-xml.html Use XSLT to prepare XML for import into OpenOffice Calc - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-oocalc/ Be humble, not imperial (in design) - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=10286 State of the art in XML modeling - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think30.html _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
