Hi Charles, Thanks for your reply! However, I'm still facing some problems since this did not give me what I need.. More comments inline...
>===== Original Message From "Karpinski, Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ===== >Returns the value of the first name in the first occurrence of the name >element. Replace the 1 with a 2 to get the second persons first name: >/doc/name[1]/@first -- For the xml that I'll be using I don't know how many name elements will be present (or at least, I don't know how to get this information using Xalan). So, I can't index the names >or this to get a list of all the first names: >/doc/name/@first This didn't work too well :(... These are my results: mySerializeNodeSet SerializeNodeSet/foo.xml / /doc/name/@first Warning: An attribute or namespace node was selected. Attribute and namespace nodes cannot be serialized. Warning: An attribute or namespace node was selected. Attribute and namespace nodes cannot be serialized. Warning: An attribute or namespace node was selected. Attribute and namespace nodes cannot be serialized. Warning: An attribute or namespace node was selected. Attribute and namespace nodes cannot be serialized. Warning: An attribute or namespace node was selected. Attribute and namespace nodes cannot be serialized. Warning: An attribute or namespace node was selected. Attribute and namespace nodes cannot be serialized. Warning: An attribute or namespace node was selected. Attribute and namespace nodes cannot be serialized. Warning: An attribute or namespace node was selected. Attribute and namespace nodes cannot be serialized. Warning: An attribute or namespace node was selected. Attribute and namespace nodes cannot be serialized. Warning: An attribute or namespace node was selected. Attribute and namespace nodes cannot be serialized. >To get the first foo element from each, try this > >/doc/name/foo[1] >Hope that answered your questions. > >Charles Any advice/clues as to how I could advance, both in relation to my original questions (below) as well as my confusion (above)! Please help! Thanks, Kaushal >-----Original Message----- >From: Kaushal Sanghavi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:00 PM >To: xalan-c-users >Subject: getting a set of attribute values from xml using c > > >This is what I'm trying: > >I'm just toying with the SerializeNodeSet sample code, and using the foo.xml >as data. I've changed foo.xml to look like this: > ><?xml version="1.0"?> ><doc> > <name first="David" last="Marston">Mr. Marston > <foo> 123 </foo> > <foo> 358 </foo> > <foo> 526 </foo> > </name> > <name first="David" last="Bertoni">Mr. Bertoni > <foo> 1238 </foo> > <foo> 3585 </foo> > <foo> 5266 </foo> > <foo> sjk </foo> > </name> > > <name first="Donald" last="Leslie">Mr. Leslie</name> > <name first="Emily" last="Farmer">Ms. Farmer</name> > <name first="Myriam" last="Midy">Ms. Midy</name> > <name first="Paul" last="Dick">Mr. Dick</name> > <name first="Scott" last="Boag">Mr. Boag</name> > <name first="Shane" last="Curcuru">Mr. Curcuru</name> > <name first="Joseph" last="Kesselman">Mr. Kesselman</name> > <name first="Stephen" last="Auriemma">Mr. Auriemma</name> ></doc> > >Two questions: >1. I'm trying to get only the value enclosed in the foo element. >(for eg., output should be: "123, 358, 526," in the above). Instead, what I'm getting is the following: >bash-2.03$ SerializeNodeSet SerializeNodeSet/foo.xml / //foo ><foo> 123 </foo><foo> 358 </foo><foo> 526 </foo><foo> 1238 </foo><foo> >3585 </foo><foo> 5266 </foo><foo> sjk </foo> > How can I get rid of the extra <foo> </foo> around each value ? >2. I'm trying to get a list of only the first names, i.e. the value stored >in >the attribute "name/@first" . How can I do that? I get the error - "Warning: An attribute or namespace node was selected. Attribute and namespace nodes cannot be serialized." if I ever try to get the value stored in an attribute of an element. > - Also, how do I insert a \n or a space, or some de-limiting character >between the results, so I don't get everything as one continous string, as >above? > >I'm hoping these will be easy for all the xalan gurus out there! :) > >Thanks, >Kaushal
