XMLDocument.selectNodes

[N Bhonsle]

Hi:

If I have the following in my xml doc,
<tptd:applet xmlns isco="http://www.oracle.com/tptd/configuration" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.oracle.com/tptd/configuration plus
_config.xsd">
<transport name="jrmp"/>^M
<transport name="codebase"/>^M.....
.....
</tptd:applet>

Will the following return me all the "name" nodes --
NodeList nodeList=XMLDocument.selectNodes("/applet/transport" );

Please let me know.
Thanks.

[Lasse Koskela]

Have you tried?

I don't know if this "XMLDocument" class is namespace-aware or not and how its XPath implementation works. Then again, I have no idea which API or product that class belongs to?

[Madhav Lakkapragada]

Originally posted by N Bhonsle:
Hi:

If I have the following in my xml doc,
<tptd:applet xmlns isco="http://www.oracle.com/tptd/configuration" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.oracle.com/tptd/configuration plus
_config.xsd">
<transport name="jrmp"/>^M
<transport name="codebase"/>^M.....
.....
</tptd:applet>

Will the following return me all the "name" nodes --
NodeList nodeList=XMLDocument.selectNodes("/applet/transport" );

Please let me know.
Thanks.

IMO that returns the list of 'transport' elements as opposed to the 'name' attributes ?

Not very positive about parsers but atleast that's the case with the XSL when you use that XPath (and so I have some amount of confidence in what I say).

- m

[N Bhonsle]

Hi, I tried the following to select the name attributes of the 2 transport nodes --

NodeList nodeList=xmlDocument.selectNodes("/applet/transport/@name" );

for(int i=0; i<nodeList.getLength(); i++)
{
XMLElement node=(XMLElement)nodeList.item(i);
node.getAttribute("name");
}

XMLElement node=(XMLElement)nodeList.item(0);
node.getAttribute("name");
XMLElement node1=(XMLElement)nodeList.item(1);
node1.getAttribute("name");

But I get a NPE at the first node.getAttribute("name");

I think I need to use
NodeList nodeList=xmlDocument.selectNodes("/applet/transport/@name",nsr);
where nsr is the NSResolver to resolve any prefixes that occur in given pattern.
How can I get the value for nsr?

Thanks.

[N Bhonsle]

Sorry, my mistake in one of the calls for the node object below --
for(int i=0; i<nodeList.getLength(); i++)
{
XMLElement node=(XMLElement)nodeList.item(i);
}

XMLElement node=(XMLElement)nodeList.item(0);
String val1 = node.getNodeValue();
XMLElement node1=(XMLElement)nodeList.item(1);
String val2 = node1.getNodeValue();

But I get a NPE at the first String val1 = node.getNodeValue();

I think I need to use
NodeList nodeList=xmlDocument.selectNodes("/applet/transport/@name",nsr);
where nsr is the NSResolver to resolve any prefixes that occur in given pattern.
How can I get the value for nsr?

Thanks.

[N Bhonsle]

Hi:
I realised that XMLElement does not the getNodeValue() methods, so this is the corrected version.
I have included the computation of the namespace resolver too but I get a Java NPE at node.getAttribute()? Can someone tell me why?

I tried the following but I am getting NPE at node.getAttribute(), can you tell me whether my namespace resolver is being computed incorrectly?--

public void doCombine() throws FileNotFoundException, IOException, XSLException, InvocationTargetException, XMLParseException,
SAXException
{
URL in_xml_url = new URL("file://" + getSpec());
XMLDocument xmlDocument = null;

//Create a parser
DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();

parser.setValidationMode(XMLConstants.NONVALIDATING);
parser.setBaseURL(in_xml_url);

//Create a document from the url
parser.parse(in_xml_url);

//Cache the document from the parser
xmlDocument = parser.getDocument();

XMLElement nsr = (XMLElement) xmlDocument.getDocumentElement();

NodeList nodeList=xmlDocument.selectNodes("/applet/transport/@name", nsr);

XMLElement node=(XMLElement)nodeList.item(0);
String trans_val1 = node.getAttribute("name"); //get NPE here
XMLElement node1=(XMLElement)nodeList.item(1);
String trans_val2 = node1.getAttribute("name");

}