How to finding the entire path of a value? XPath?
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Posted By:   Adnan_Umar
Posted On:   Wednesday, July 23, 2003 01:49 PM

Alchimiste Suppose we have the following XML document: Paulo Coelho Coffragants Inc XML Design Bonneau Wrox System Arch. with XML Daum MK and we run the XPath "\Authror", we get.. Paulo Coelho Bonneau Daum Is it possible to find the entire path using XPath or something else? such as.. BooksGeneralAuthorPaulo Coelho BooksStandardsXMLAuthorBonneau BooksStandardsXMLAuthorDa   More>>
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Suppose we have the following XML document:




			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			Paulo Coelho
			

			

			Coffragants Inc
			

			

			

			

			

			

			
				

				

				XML Design
				

				

				Bonneau
				

				

				Wrox
				

				

			
			

			

			
				

				

				System Arch. with XML
				

				

				Daum
				

				

				MK



and we run the XPath "\Authror", we get.. 



			

			Paulo Coelho
			

			

			Bonneau
			

			

			Daum



Is it possible to find the entire path using XPath or something else? such as.. 



			

			BooksGeneralAuthorPaulo Coelho
			

			

			BooksStandardsXMLAuthorBonneau
			

			

			BooksStandardsXMLAuthorDaum



Thank you in advance..
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Try JDom

Posted By:   Roger_Hand  
Posted On:   Thursday, July 24, 2003 12:56 PM

Dunno if this is the easiest way, but this should be possible using JDom, which I highly recommend for doing this sort of thing. (Click on Documentation and read the Oracle Magazine articles for a good starting overview.)


It's a bit roundabout, but once you've gotten your nodes using XPath.selectNodes() you could have a little routine for each element that makes recursive calls to element.getParent().


I have not tested this and, again, there may be an easier way of doing this. Good luck!

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