Re: [Babeldoc-devel] Simple Question

[Bruce M. <br...@mc...>]

On Thursday 24 April 2003 05:44 pm, ek...@ba... wrote:
> This might sound simple to you, but I am trying to do something basic and
> want to verify.
>
> My input to babeldoc is an XML string.  I want to be able to reference
> tags from the XML String from within the stages of the pipeline.  One of
> my PipelineStages is the Script stage (I am using Jython).  I want to

Jython - ewwww.  Kidding.

> reference some of the XML tags from within the script but have had no luck
> using document.get(<tagName>).
>
> A few questions:
> 1. Should I be using the XPath Pipeline Stage to extract the wanted tags
> and use document.put(<tagName>,<tagValue>) so that my later Script stage
> can use document.get(<tagName)?

Correct.

 2. If so, where would I find some decent documentation/examples for coding
> XPath?

Take a look at the higgs bros or the other big example.

> 3. Should I use the Enrich Pipeline Stage instead?

Enrich is possible too - but enrich does not use XPath to get data out of the 
xml document.  Its more for adding ancilliary enrichments - date, 
userdirectory, scripts, etc, etc.

> 4. Is there a better way to do this than my above approach?

No.

>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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