[HAPI-devel] Obtaining XPath during "client" mode...

[Russell B. <ru...@wi...>]

I wonder if there's a way to get an XPath within the source document for 
any, given piece of information I'm able to get out of the API. (Note 
that there is a way to do this using MDHT for HL7 v3 work; this is why I 
ask.) I need to annotate data I extract with the location where I found 
it in the original source document.

For example, let's assume the following code:

    FhirContext context = FhirContext.forDstu3();
    IParser     parser  = context.newXmlParser();
    Patient     patient = parser.parseResource( Patient.class,
    getFhirRecord() );

    List< HumanName > names = patient.getName();
    for( HumanName name : names )
    {
       String family = name.getFamily();
       List< StringType > givenNames = name.getGiven();

       for( StringType given : givenNames )
       {
         String name  = given.toString();
         String xpath = ?;                 // x marks the spot
       }
    }

Neither by inspecting data structures in the debugger nor by examining 
the Javadoc for /org.hl7.fhir.dstu3.model.Patient/ am I able to find way 
to get back something like

    /Patient/contained[1]/Patient/name/given[1]/

for a given name at [x marks the spot above] .

How are others solving this? Does anyone else need to solve this?

Thanks