RE: Xalan C / XPath question

That is actually one of the critical pieces of this.  I am going to have
a base XML document that will need to have information added based on
certain initial conditions.  Sorry for the code confusion - grabbed the
wrong file handle.
The real code should be in this message.

Jonathan
 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Bertoni [mailto:dbertoni@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 3:12 PM
To: xalan-c-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Xalan C / XPath question

Coker, Jonathan M wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who has replied.  I worked with the SimpleXPathAPI 
> example and determined that my fudamental problem was not wrapping my 
> input with single quotes.  Once I did that, the sample started doing 
> what I expected.  Now here is what I would really like to do:  My XML 
> file has many more entries in each section and some entries could be 
> several (4+) levels deep.  Once I parse the document, I want to be 
> able to do things like get all the player nodes that have swords with 
> an active value of '1'.  Or, I may simply want to get the name of a 
> player with a given ID.  I am using code from 'C++ Cookbook' as my 
> starting point.  See Attached.  The main difference I see is that I am

> creating my document using the XercesDOMParser.  If I need to rethink 
> my approach, please let me know.
> 

The code you attached is a trivial program that converts a tab character
to
3 spaces, so I can't comment on your code.

However, unless you have some need for a DOM instance that you can
modify, I would suggest you stick with using Xalan-C's standard source
tree.

If you find you are doing lots of searches for attribute values, you
might want to consider writing a DTD that declares those attributes as
type ID, so you can use the XPath id() function to find nodes more
efficiently.

Dave

14-23.cpp
Description: 14-23.cpp