Re: XMLNextSibling is there an easier way
Re: XMLNextSibling is there an easier way
- Subject: Re: XMLNextSibling is there an easier way
- From: Jim Skibbie <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:43:29 -0500
- Thread-topic: XMLNextSibling is there an easier way
Title: Re: XMLNextSibling is there an easier way
What I failed to mention in my original post was that there is a namespace assigned to this XML. That is what was tripping me up. I’m bad with XPath, even worse with the whole namespace thing.
The XML opens like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<FMPDSORESULT xmlns="http://www.filemaker.com/fmpdsoresult">
So as someone has pointed out earlier in my training here on the list, I’ve assigned the namespace prefix of fred to the namespace like so:
XMLSetContext theDoc namespace {nsprefix:"fred", nsurl:"http://www.filemaker.com/fmpdsoresult"}
Then either of the two suggestions I received work (as long as I make reference to the namespace prefix in the below examples):
set theThingYouReLookingFor to XMLGetText (XMLXPath the_root with "//fred:ROW/fred:Value[../fred:IDNoSetItemParent='6353368']")
-- {"VARnumber"}
or
set theThingYouReLookingFor to XMLGetText (XMLXPath the_root with "fred:ROW/fred:IDNoSetItemParent[. = \"6353368\"]/following-sibling::fred:Value[position()=1]")
-- {"VARnumber"}
There’s a lot of ‘fred’ to go around.
Thanks for everyone’s help.
Jim
Title: Re: XMLNextSibling is there an easier way
That's very bizarre. I just copied your sample XML into a new Unicode window in Smile, then I copied the line above into an AS Terminal and I hit the Enter key (alt-Return), and it looks like it works:
set the_root to XMLRoot (XMLOpen (get text of window 2))
set CustomFieldPath to XMLXPath the_root with "ROW/IDNoSetItemParent[. = \"6353368\"]/following-sibling::Value[position()=1]"
XMLGetText CustomFieldPath
-- {"VARnumber"}
Emmanuel
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