On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Jon Baer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Im trying to "reapply" Jaxen to a current research project and Im trying
> to figure out if XPath can accomplish this to begin with. What Im
> trying to do is apply a DOM to a sentence structure with a 10mb XML file
> as such:
>
> <p>I LIKE CARS</p>
> <p>I HATE CARS</p>
> <p>I LIKE *</p>
>
> Id liken the path to something like /root/I/LIKE/CARS or such but is
> there an easy way to treat the contents of the element as path nodes? I
> hope Im not sounding confusing. Maybe Im just looking for the right
> XPath formula to use here?
Yah, that won't work, right off hand.
You coud pre-process it into:
<I>
<LIKE>
<_STAR_/>
<CARS/>
</LIKE>
<HATE>
<CARS/>
</HATE>
</I>
And then you're on your way to XPathy goodness.
But, otherwise, XPath really isn't your friend for dealing
with the text context of an element.
-bob
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