Sorry for repeating myself, but it would be kind of useful for me to
know the solution ;)
Does anyone know it?
My previous post was sent in HTML and was not very readable on the
sourceforge page. Sorry about that. See it for attachments. Here's the
message itself, this time in plain text.
Thanks in advance.
Michal
Michał Tkacz wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Brian. I've attached sample xml file as well as a
> bunch of scripts that illustrate the problem. "b" versions differ in
> that they use nested <actions> instead of separate target.
>
> The main difference between your xml file and mine is that in mine
> namespace is set using xmls attribute instead of xmlns:prefix attribute.
>
> Michal
>
> Brian Agnew wrote:
>> Michael,
>>
>> Thx for the below. Can you provide a simplified input XML document for the
>> below so we both know what we're looking at wrt. inputs ?
>>
>> Note the following appears better:
>> <target name="abc">
>> <xmltask source="a.xml" dest="b.xml">
>> <call path="/yh:some/yh:path" target="process-node">
>> <param name="value" path="yh:subpath/text()"/>
>> </call>
>> </xmltask>
>> </target>
>> <target name="process-node">
>> <echo>Process node called with ${value}</echo>
>> </target>
>>
>> where the input document is:
>>
>> <yh:some xmlns:yh="http://www.yahoo.com"; xmlns="http://junk.com";>
>> <yh:path>
>> <yh:subpath>1</yh:subpath>
>> </yh:path>
>> <yh:path>
>> <yh:subpath>2</yh:subpath>
>> </yh:path>
>> </yh:some>
>>
>> Second question: when you look to modify the XML within the target of a
>> <call>, how are you passing it ? As a buffer and into XMLTask again ? Or
>> as a property ?
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> On Wed, May 28, 2008 17:33, Micha³ Tkacz wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Brian,
>>>
>>> I have following namespace-related problem, which I'm unable to solve.
>>> Maybe you can help me, otherwise it's something to consider for the next
>>> version of xmltask.
>>>
>>> I have an xml document where each node comes from the same namespace.
>>> I'm trying to loop over all nodes matching an xpath using <call>. For
>>> each node I need to access certain subnodes.
>>>
>>>
>>> Script 1:
>>>
>>> <call path="/:some/:path" target="process-node">
>>> <param name="value" path=":sub-node/text()"/>
>>> </call>
>>>
>>> throws
>>>
>>> javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: A location path was expected,
>>> but the following token was encountered: :sub-node
>>>
>>>
>>> Script 2:
>>>
>>> <call path="/:some/:path" target="process-node">
>>> <param name="value" path="/:sub-node/text()"/>
>>> </call>
>>>
>>> (slash added) fails to match sub-node element.
>>>
>>>
>>> Script 3:
>>>
>>> <call path="/:some/:path" target="process-node" buffer="node"/>
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> <target name="process-node">
>>> <xmltask sourcebuffer="node">
>>> <copy path=":sub-node/text()" property="value"/>
>>> </xmltask>
>>> </target>
>>>
>>> throws
>>>
>>> javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: A location path was expected,
>>> but the following token was encountered: :sub-node
>>>
>>>
>>> Script 4:
>>>
>>> <call path="/:some/:path" target="process-node" buffer="node"/>
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> <target name="process-node">
>>> <xmltask sourcebuffer="node">
>>> <copy path="*/*:sub-node/text()" property="value"/>
>>> </xmltask>
>>> </target>
>>>
>>> (slash added) throws
>>>
>>> com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.domapi.XPathStylesheetDOM3Exception:
>>> Prefix must resolve to a namespace:
>>>
>>>
>>> Using nested actions instead of target doesn't change anything. Using
>>> "sub-node/text()" without a colon fails to match sub-node element for
>>> obvious reasons.
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a way to achieve what I need with xmltask 1.15.1?
>>>
>>> Another idea: <call> seems to make a copy of a matching node which makes
>>> it impossible to modify it so that the changes are reflected in original
>>> document. How about adding additional parameter, saying whether a copy
>>> should be made or not?
>>>
>>> Help will be much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Michal
>>>
>>> Brian Agnew wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi -
>>>>
>>>> A number of issues have come up recently regarding XMLTask and
>>>> namespaces.
>>>> I think these can be reduced to 2 fundamental issues:
>>>>
>>>> 1) XPaths for namespace-enabled documents are confusing. Or rather,
>>>> people
>>>> are not aware of how these should work.
>>>>
>>>> 2) Inserting non-namespaced documents/fragments into namespace-enabled
>>>> documents doesn't quite work as expected (resulting in empty xmlns
>>>> attributes and the like)
>>>>
>>>> (I believe that XMLTask is doing what it's asked to correctly - however
>>>> XMLTask exists to make people's lives easier and so we should be asking
>>>> it
>>>> to do more)
>>>>
>>>> I aim to fix both the above in the next release (no ETA, since I have no
>>>> spec!). If there are other namespace issues that you believe are not
>>>> covered in the above and that are causing you grief, please let me know.
>>>> The development of XMLTask is driven solely by customer requests now!
>>>>
>>>> Brian
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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