Continued from the privious post to be more specific.
Say we have an XML document as follows:
<!-- ########### XML Document ########## -->
<PatientInfo>
<Patient id="10099">
<DemoInfo>
<Age>39</Age>
<Gender>Female</Gender>
</DemoInfo>
</Patient>
</PatientInfo>
// ########### Code Snippet ##############
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder = null;
Document xmlDoc = null;
Node node = null;
NodeIterator nodeIter = null;
try {
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
xmlDoc = builder.parse(filePath);
node = XPathAPI.selectSingleNode(xmlDoc, "//[EMAIL PROTECTED]"10099']/*");
// The 'node' should reference the <DemoInfo> element. Right?
// ******************** QUESTION ********************
// The question is that whether the 'startNode' is referencing the
// <DemoInfo> element or the root element, <PatientInfo>.
nodeIter = XPathAPI.selectNodeIterator(node, "./*");
// I was thinking that the 'nodeIter' should return the list of
// subelements, including the <Age> and <Gender>, but it does not.
// That's why I am trying to find out whether the 1st parameter in
// all methods of XPathAPI is referencing the root element of DOM
// or any node of the DOM passed to it
}
catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
Any comments? Thanks.
Pae
> In XPathAPI, all methods has a first parameter, "Node contextNode",
> and I am clear about that parameter.
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> Is that always referencing the root element of the DOM? Or, that
> supposed to be reference any node in the DOM. Thanks.
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