XML question
XML question
- Subject: XML question
- From: Ruth Bygrave <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 12:33:01 +0000
(idiot level, please)
Why is this so *bloody difficult*?
Am using the Satimage XML suite and trying to learn about it by
listing books. Perfectly reasonably (unless I'm being stupid), I put
the book title in as an attribute to the book root element (because
the name of a book is the name of the whole item, which appears to me
to be distinct from format or author because it's the main identifier
of the item itself). So I can get to the "book/author" with XMLXPath
but not the name, and the example XML they offer only gives elements
and not attributes (they point out that a name could also be
implemented as an attribute, and then don't say how).
AFAIK the syntax I need to get right is part of the DOM and not a
peculiarity of the Satimage suite itself, so you'd think it would
turn up on Google. but apart from some fairly confusing things saying
I need to use an @ sign, can't find any examples.
Trying to get the 'book name' attribute from the book element (the
only thing in the XML file), I have tried:
XMLGetText ((XMLXPath with "book name@book"))
XMLGetText ((XMLXPath with "book@book name"))
and various other perms & combs of the above, and the syntax seems to
be choking the parser however I try.
Regards, Ruth
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