On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:17:34 -0500, Liam R E Quin wrote: > On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 19:39 +0000, Dan Stromberg wrote: >> Say you have an xml file like: >> >> <project name="FullDist" default="full"> >> <property name="projectname" value="Bleeding_Edge"/> <!-- Lots of >> other stuff here --> >> </project> >> >> And you want to pull out just Bleeding_Edge without a lot of xml >> framing. >> >> >From a shell script, is xsltproc a good way of doing this? If so how? > > I wrote a simple C program that takes an XML document and an XPath > expression, and returns the result. You're welcome to a copy.
Yes, please. Where might I find it? > Here it would be, xpath '/project/[EMAIL PROTECTED]"projectname"]/@value' > >> Would xquery be better than XSLT? > > If your document is large, or you're doing it often, yes, probably, > because then you could have the values indexed, and also because you > have access to a lot more functions you can call in your XPath > expressions if you need them. We aren't using just huge XML documents, nor are we using them in tight loops, so perhaps I'll ignore xquery for now. > As a side-note, this XML design Sorry, which XML design? Indexed use of xquery, or your xpath program, or something else? > assumes that neither names nor > properties ever contain markup themselves, and are always in the same > language. If you used sub-elements, you could avoid these constraints, > e.g. > > <project> > <property> > <name>The Equation</name> > <value>E = mc<sup>2</vaue> > </property> > <property> > <name xml:lang="en">trousers</name> > <name xml:lang="en_US">pants</name> > <name xml:lang="fr">calsons</name> > <value>0</value> > </property> > </project> > > Liam _______________________________________________ xslt mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xslt
