Yes.
1) Attribute management is a pain, since XPath identifies only the
attribute node i.e. the name AND the value. Hence a <replace> on an
attribute with a text() node is not going to work.
2) The error message should be much better!
3) I think that the <attr> command needs to handle buffers. I will try and
do 2) and 3) for a new release soon.
4) You can get around this by using properties. This is a bit of a pain,
since properties are expanded for EACH <xmltask> invocation (actually Ant
task invocation). So you have to set the property in one <xmltask> and use
it in another :-(
Thus:
<xmltask source="c.xml">
<copy path="/a/b/text()" property="p"/>
</xmltask>
<xmltask source="c.xml" dest="d.xml">
<attr path="/a/b" attr="id" value="${p}"/>
</xmltask>
will do what you want (I think). Sets the property 'p' to your text node.
Then the next <xmltask> uses this.
Note how the first <xmltask> only reads the document. It doesn't write it.
Hope this is of use.
Brian
On Fri, May 11, 2007 18:03, Youmans, Damon wrote:
> I am trying to update an attribute value to append a suffix. I have
> found to create the desired text value I had to create a temporary node
> and set the desired text value. I have this value set properly (can see
> it with the <print> function) however I cannot get the <replace> to work
> with my buffer..it keeps giving the error Attempt to insert prior to
> root node. Any ideas??
>
> <xmltask
> source="${jarSourceDirectory}ejbModule/META-INF/ibm-ejb-jar-bnd.xmi"
> dest="c:\tmp\ibm-ejb-jar-bnd_TEMP.xmi">
> <!-- First, just get a node added with the context root suffix.
> Need to do this to manipulate attributes -->
> <insert path="/ejbbnd:EJBJarBinding" xml="<damon/>"
> position="under"/>
> <copy
> path="/ejbbnd:EJBJarBinding/ejbBindings/@listenerInputPortName"
> buffer="namedBuffer" attrValue="true"/>
> <insert path="/ejbbnd:EJBJarBinding/damon" buffer="namedBuffer"
> position="under"/>
> <insert path="/ejbbnd:EJBJarBinding/damon"
> xml="${contextRootSuffix}" position="under"/>
> <copy path="/ejbbnd:EJBJarBinding/damon/text()" buffer="namedBuffer"
> append="false"/>
> <print buffer="namedBuffer"/>
>
> <!-- THIS works ok... -->
> <replace
> path="/ejbbnd:EJBJarBinding/ejbBindings/@listenerInputPortName"
> withText="testTextReplace"/>
> <print
> path="/ejbbnd:EJBJarBinding/ejbBindings/@listenerInputPortName"/>
>
> <!-- THIS does not work?? -->
> <replace
> path="/ejbbnd:EJBJarBinding/ejbBindings/@listenerInputPortName"
> withBuffer="namedBuffer"/>
>
> <!-- cleanup of temp node created for attibute mod -->
> <remove path="/ejbbnd:EJBJarBinding/damon"/>
> </xmltask>
>
> Here is the output when run through ANT:
> [xmltask] { buffer 'namedBuffer' output
> [xmltask] ListenerPort_INSURITY_COVERAGE_VERIFYQA
> [xmltask] } buffer 'namedBuffer' output
> [xmltask] { node output
> [xmltask] testTextReplace
> [xmltask] } node output
> [xmltask] Attempt to insert prior to root node
>
>
>
> Starting XML
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <ejbbnd:EJBJarBinding xmi:version="2.0"
> xmlns:xmi="http://www.omg.org/XMI"; xmlns:ejbbnd="ejbbnd.xmi"
> xmlns:ejb="ejb.xmi" xmi:id="EJBJarBinding_1160662690292">
> <ejbJar href="META-INF/ejb-jar.xml#ejb-jar_ID"/>
> <ejbBindings xmi:type="ejbbnd:MessageDrivenBeanBinding"
> xmi:id="MessageDrivenBeanBinding_1160662690292"
> listenerInputPortName="ListenerPort_INSURITY_COVERAGE_VERIFY">
> <enterpriseBean xmi:type="ejb:MessageDriven"
> href="META-INF/ejb-jar.xml#CoverageVerificationMDBBean"/>
> <resRefBindings xmi:id="ResourceRefBinding_1160666147208"
> jndiName="jms/BigironJmsConnectionFactory">
> <bindingResourceRef
> href="META-INF/ejb-jar.xml#ResourceRef_1160666147208"/>
> </resRefBindings>
> <resRefBindings xmi:id="ResourceRefBinding_1160666147209"
> jndiName="jms/Queue_INSURITY_COVERAGE_VERIFY_REPLY">
> <bindingResourceRef
> href="META-INF/ejb-jar.xml#ResourceRef_1160666147209"/>
> </resRefBindings>
> </ejbBindings>
> </ejbbnd:EJBJarBinding>
>
>
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