Re: XMLNextSibling is there an easier way
Re: XMLNextSibling is there an easier way
- Subject: Re: XMLNextSibling is there an easier way
- From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 13:24:05 +0200
Le 1 mai 08 à 18:21, Jim Skibbie a écrit :
Thanks for the advice. I wasn’t aware of the bypassing namespace
option. It makes it a lot cleaner.
Hello Jim,
Your question made me remember that I never paid very much attention
to the XML Suite of System Events; this was thus the opportunity to
experiment with it and to check whether it could be somewhat relevant.
As it was to be expected, XML Suite appears much more verbose than a
specialized XML tool.
On the other hand, it doesn't seem to care of namespaces and,
surprisingly, allows to make queries such as the one you were
interested in without looping too:
tell application "System Events" to set theThingYouReLookingFor to
value of XML element "Value" of first item of (XML elements of XML
element "FMPDSORESULT" of XML file "~/Desktop/test.xml" whose (name is
"ROW") and ((XML elements whose name is "IDNoSetItemParent" and value
is "6353368") is not {})) -- [1]
Of course, the above assumes that IDNoSetItemParent uniquely
identifies a ROW, otherwise the "first item of..." part doesn't make
very much sense.
Moreover, should the ROW be non existing, the variable
theThingYouReLookingFor just seems to be unset, no error being raised...
Axel,
Slightly digressing.
[1] According to your various posts, file test.xml contains:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<FMPDSORESULT xmlns="http://www.filemaker.com/fmpdsoresult";>
<ROW MODID="0" RECORDID="13381415"/>
<ROW MODID="1" RECORDID="13381416"/>
<ROW MODID="1" RECORDID="13381417">
<FieldLabel>VAR Program #</FieldLabel>
<IDNoCustomField>6353376</IDNoCustomField>
<IDNoCustomFieldLabel/>
<IDNoJob>021521</IDNoJob>
<IDNoLocation>3007</IDNoLocation>
<IDNoSet/>
<IDNoSetItemParent>6353368</IDNoSetItemParent>
<ItemLetter>A</ItemLetter>
<SortOrder>6.5</SortOrder>
<Value>VARnumber</Value>
</ROW>
</FMPDSORESULT>
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