[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: XPath Question
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 04:35:17 -0500
Christian,
This helps. Now If I can figure out how to use the string function in a
program. I will have a pointer to the node, which will be in a parse
tree.
Thanks,
John
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:57:20AM +0200, Christian Egli wrote:
> Hi
>
> "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Suppose I have the following subtree
> >
> > <brl>
> > <newline/>
> > This is the first line.
> > <newline/>
> > This is the second line.
> > </brl>
> >
> > What is the Xpath expression for extracting the string-value of the
> > <brl> node? How would I get this string-value using
> > xmlXPathevalexpression?
>
> If I understand correctly what you want is "string(brl)". A (crude) way
> to test this is the shell in xmllint. Save the above xml in a file, say
> foo.xml. Then invoke the shell in xmllint:
>
> $ xmllint --shell foo.xml
> / > cat
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <brl>
> <newline/>
> This is the first line.
> <newline/>
> This is the second line.
> </brl>
>
> / > xpath string(brl)
> Object is a string : This is the first line. This is the s...
> / > quit
>
> Hope that helps
> --
> Christian Egli
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> Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Z??rich, Switzerland
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