Accessing document content

[rcfiv]

First I want to say, I know you have examples for this sort of thing. However, I can not find them. I basically downloaded all the jar files for creating the plugin and copied some code I found on the web as well as a plugin that was already installed with my version of oXygen Author (15.2).

What I am trying to figure out is how to access the xml content. Here is snippet of code that I am trying, but it's failing with incompatible types. The variable, editors, is a hashtable that I save off the editors for whatever editors are currently open in the application.

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// Extract the xml page editor

WSXMLTextEditorPage xmlPage = (WSXMLTextEditorPage) editors.get(currentEdit).getCurrentPage();

Object[] values = xmlPage.evaluateXPath("/topic/prolog//othermeta[@name = 'Category Codes']/@content");

I have a DITA file open in the editor. If you have a location I can go to, to find more examples... I'd be happy to go check it out. I don't think I am able to set up Maven on my current configuration of Eclipse.

[alex_jitianu]

Hello,

The API you are using (WSXMLTextEditorPage) is intended for when the text page is the active page. I suspect that in your situation the author page is active. You can handle both cases like this:

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String currentPageID = editorAccess.getCurrentPageID();

Object[] values = null;

if (EditorPageConstants.PAGE_TEXT.equals(currentPageID) && editorAccess.getCurrentPage() instanceof WSXMLTextEditorPage) {

  WSXMLTextEditorPage textPage = (WSXMLTextEditorPage) editorAccess.getCurrentPage();

  values = textPage.evaluateXPath("/topic/prolog//othermeta[@name = 'Category Codes']/@content");

} else if (EditorPageConstants.PAGE_AUTHOR.equals(currentPageID)) {

  WSAuthorEditorPage authorPage = (WSAuthorEditorPage) editorAccess.getCurrentPage();

  values = authorPage.getDocumentController().evaluateXPath("/topic/prolog//othermeta[@name = 'Category Codes']/@content", true, true, true);

}

If needed you can programmatically switch pages but I'm not sure if that is what you want or what you need:

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editorAccess.changePage(EditorPageConstants.PAGE_TEXT);

If would be good if you could create the Maven based sample SDK project because it has a lot of sample code.

Best regards,
Alex

[rcfiv]

Hello,

The API you are using (WSXMLTextEditorPage) is intended for when the text page is the active page. I suspect that in your situation the author page is active. You can handle both cases like this:

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String currentPageID = editorAccess.getCurrentPageID();

Object[] values = null;

if (EditorPageConstants.PAGE_TEXT.equals(currentPageID) && editorAccess.getCurrentPage() instanceof WSXMLTextEditorPage) {

  WSXMLTextEditorPage textPage = (WSXMLTextEditorPage) editorAccess.getCurrentPage();

  values = textPage.evaluateXPath("/topic/prolog//othermeta[@name = 'Category Codes']/@content");

} else if (EditorPageConstants.PAGE_AUTHOR.equals(currentPageID)) {

  WSAuthorEditorPage authorPage = (WSAuthorEditorPage) editorAccess.getCurrentPage();

  values = authorPage.getDocumentController().evaluateXPath("/topic/prolog//othermeta[@name = 'Category Codes']/@content", true, true, true);

}

If needed you can programmatically switch pages but I'm not sure if that is what you want or what you need:

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editorAccess.changePage(EditorPageConstants.PAGE_TEXT);

If would be good if you could create the Maven based sample SDK project because it has a lot of sample code.

Best regards,
Alex

Alex,

Thanks a ton... that seemed to do that trick. I appreciate the help. I will see if I can create a Maven based sample sdk project somewhere. So I can check other examples. Again, thank you!

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Richard