XPath never returning

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 1:07 am

Greetings,

I'm trying to use the Xpath box provided on the editor to poke around my XML file(and improve my Xpath skills). I'm working with a large file(3Mb). When I enter in an absolute path like /root/child::node() - this is a node with no children, the Xpath expression doesn't return.

My Cpu hits 100% and I can't figure out how to make oxygen stop its Xpath query.

Any ideas?
thanks,

Post by **ksader** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 1:09 am

Anonymous wrote:Greetings,

I'm trying to use the Xpath box provided on the editor to poke around my XML file(and improve my Xpath skills). I'm working with a large file(3Mb). When I enter in an absolute path like /root/child::node() - this is a node with no children, the Xpath expression doesn't return.

My Cpu hits 100% and I can't figure out how to make oxygen stop its Xpath query.

Any ideas?
thanks,

Just attaching my username to this post - thanks.

Post by **ksader** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 1:13 am

Nevermind, nevermind - it helps if I actually use a valid XPath expression - sorry to wast everyone's time.

Doh!

Post by **george** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 11:55 am

Hi,

I guess also /root/child::node() will return and display the info but that does not mean a node with no children but any node inside your root element and for a 3M file that can be a lot of information that needs to be determined together with the location for each hit and displayed in a list in the results area.
A possible approach will be to test the XPath on a cut down sample document and then apply it on your real document.

Best Regards,
George

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