Re: Evaluating dynamic GPath

On 5 Oct 2004, at 23:06, Dion Almaer wrote:

> Hi guys -
>
> Is there a nice clean way in which you can take a GPath expression as a
> String and kinda evaluate it?
>
> foo = new XmlParser().parse("foo.xml")
> headings = foo.bar.heading
>
> Is fine, but what about if you wanted to:
>
> foo = new XmlParser().parse("foo.xml")
> Headings = evaluateGPath(args[0]) # Where args[0] is "foo.bar.heading"
>
> Anything nifty that can be done?
Dion,

a = 'bar'
b = 'heading'

heading = foo[a][b]

Does that do it for you?



John Wilson
The Wilson Partnership
http://www.wilson.co.uk