Or you can use the fact that your newly created element does not have attribute yet:
//ParentNode/ChildNodes/ChildNode[\[]not(@Name)[\]] Alex -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan Perlman Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 11:12 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] XmlFile CreateElement You could also use XmlConfig. >From an xpath point of view you can use something like so in your XmlSetting2 >which would get you the 3rd child element. "//ParentNode/ChildNodes/ChildNode[\[]3[\]] Ryan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of md5hans Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 6:54 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] XmlFile CreateElement Hi! I have a question about manipulating XML-files. I want to create a new element inside an existing node, after the element is created I want to set some attributes on it. My problem is that there already exists elements of the kind I want to add, how can I make the setValue action work on the new element instead of on of the existing? (the first one) My XML-file have the following structure <ParentNode> <ChildNodes> <ChildNode Name="A"/> <ChildNode Name="B"/> </ChildNodes> </ParentNode> And I want to create a new ChildNode element and set the Name value to "C". <util:XmlFile Id="XmlSettings1" File="[INSTALLDIR]settings.xml" Action="createElement" Name="ChildNode" ElementPath="//ParentNode/ChildNodes" Permanent="no" Sequence="1"/> <util:XmlFile Id="XmlSettings2" File="[INSTALLDIR]settings.xml" Action="setValue" Name="Name" Value="C" ElementPath="//ParentNode/ChildNodes/ChildNode" Permanent="no" Sequence="2"/> when I try this it adds a new empty ChildNode element and modifies the name of the "A" childnode. I suppose that it's not so suprisning since I do not specify which ChildNode element that should be modified... Should I set the value attribute in createElement and then use that value (by using a XPath) when identifying the new child node where I want to set the name attribute? If so, how do I set the Text value when defining a XPath? /Hans -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/XmlFile-CreateElement-tp17864933p17864933.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
