Re: [Vtd-xml-users] Xpath using token

[Mohit A. <moh...@gm...>]

I understand. I've found an alternative solution, as I walk down the tokens
in the order I preserve previous elements and use them as the xpath when I
find the text node.

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 8:33 PM, <jz...@xi...> wrote:

> do you know that for any text node there are unlimited ways to address it
> using XPath
> //* will definitively do,  it  therefore can be computationally expensive
> to accomplish what u look for
>
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
>  From:
> Mohit Anchlia <moh...@gm...>
>
> To:
> <jz...@xi...>
> Cc:
> <vtd...@li...>
> Sent:
> Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:56:15 -0700
> Subject:
> Re: [Vtd-xml-users] Xpath using token
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>
> For every text node I need to provde a complete xpath, this xpath goes as
> column in the database.
>
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 7:25 PM, <jz...@xi...> wrote:
>
>> Getting the xpath representation of a node is neither easy nor unique,
>> why dont u need it in the first place?
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>  From:
>> Mohit Anchlia <moh...@gm...>
>>
>> To:
>> <vtd...@li...>
>> Cc:
>>
>> Sent:
>> Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:20:13 -0700
>> Subject:
>> [Vtd-xml-users] Xpath using token
>>
>>
>>
>> From previous suggestion I switched using this logic:
>>
>> The problem is that I am not able to get full xpath down to the leaf. I
>> am only able to get 2 paths. So if I have:
>>
>> <a>
>>   <b>
>>    <c>
>>       <d>value<d>
>> .....
>>
>> I am only getting c/d/value. Is there a trick I can use here to get the
>> entire path like a/b/c/d/value string ? Only other option I see is to fall
>> back to recursive method.
>>
>>
>>   public void navigator(byte[] b) throws NavException,
>> XPathParseException,
>>    XPathEvalException, EncodingException, EOFException,
>>    EntityException, ParseException {
>>   VTDGen vg = new VTDGen();
>>   vg.setDoc(b);
>>   vg.parse(true);
>>   log.info("File found");
>>   VTDNav vn = vg.getNav();
>>   int idx = -1, type = -1;
>>   StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
>>   Map<String, ArrayList<String>> mapList = new HashMap<String,
>> ArrayList<String>>();
>>   for (int i = 0; i < vn.getTokenCount(); i++) {
>>    type = vn.getTokenType(i);
>>    // log.info("Element name ==> " + vn.toString(i) + " Token Type "
>>    // + vn.getTokenType(i));
>>    if (type == VTDNav.TOKEN_STARTING_TAG) {
>>     log.info("Element name ==> " + vn.toString(i));
>>     sb.append(vn.toString(i) + "/");
>>     if (vn.contains(i, "value")) {
>>      do {
>>       i++;
>>       // log.info("Text Element name ==> " + vn.toString(i)
>>       // + " Token Type " + vn.getTokenType(i));
>>      } while (i < vn.getTokenCount()
>>        && (vn.getTokenType(i) != VTDNav.TOKEN_CHARACTER_DATA)
>>        && (vn.getTokenType(i) != VTDNav.TOKEN_STARTING_TAG));
>>      if (i < vn.getTokenCount()
>>        && vn.getTokenType(i) == VTDNav.TOKEN_CHARACTER_DATA) {
>>       // log.info(" text node ==>" + vn.toString(i) + " ");
>>       addInMap(sb.toString(), vn.toString(i), mapList);
>>       log.info("Path: " + sb.toString());
>>       sb.setLength(0);
>>      }
>>     }
>>    }
>>   }
>>   display(mapList);
>>  }
>>  private void display(Map<String, ArrayList<String>> mapList) {
>>   for (String key : mapList.keySet()) {
>>    log.info("XPath => " + key + " values =>" + mapList.get(key));
>>   }
>>  }
>>
>>
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