If I have an XML document like below:
<foo>
<foo1>Foo Test 1</foo1>
<foo2>
<another1>
<test10>This is a duplicate</test10>
</another1>
</foo2>
<foo2>
<another1>
<test1>Foo Test 2</test1>
</another1>
</foo2>
<foo3>Foo Test 3</foo3>
<foo4>Foo Test 4</foo4>
</foo>
How do I get the XPath of <test1>
for example? So the output should be something like: foo/foo2[2]/another1/test1
I'm guessing the code would look something like this:
public String getXPath(Document document, String xmlTag) {
String xpath = "";
...
//Get the node from xmlTag
//Get the xpath using the node
return xpath;
}
Let's say String XPathVar = getXPath(document, "<test1>");
. I need to get back an absolute xpath that will work in the following code:
XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
XPathExpression xpr = xpath.compile(XPathVar);
xpr.evaluate(Document, XPathConstants.STRING);
But it can't be a shortcut like //test1
because it will also be used for meta data purposes.
When printing the result out via:
System.out.println(xpr.evaluate(Document, XPathConstants.STRING));
I should get the node's value. So if XPathVar = foo/foo2[2]/another1/test1
then I should get back:
Foo Test 2
and not This is a duplicate
You don't 'get' an xpath in the same way you don't 'get' sql.
An xpath is a query you write based on your understanding of an xml document or schema, just as sql is a query you write based on your understanding of a database schema - you don't 'get' either of them.
I would be possible to generate xpath statements from the DOM simply by walking back up the nodes from a given node, though to do this generically enough, taking into account attribute values on each node, would make the resulting code next to useless. For example (which comes with a warning that this will find the first node that has a given name, xpath is much more that this and you may as well just use the xpath //foo2
):
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
public class XPathExample
{
private static String getXPath(Node root, String elementName)
{
for (int i = 0; i < root.getChildNodes().getLength(); i++)
{
Node node = root.getChildNodes().item(i);
if (node instanceof Element)
{
if (node.getNodeName().equals(elementName))
{
return "/" + node.getNodeName();
}
else if (node.getChildNodes().getLength() > 0)
{
String xpath = getXPath(node, elementName);
if (xpath != null)
{
return "/" + node.getNodeName() + xpath;
}
}
}
}
return null;
}
private static String getXPath(Document document, String elementName)
{
return document.getDocumentElement().getNodeName() + getXPath(document.getDocumentElement(), elementName);
}
public static void main(String[] args)
{
try
{
Document document = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().parse(
new ByteArrayInputStream(
("<foo><foo1>Foo Test 1</foo1><foo2><another1><test1>Foo Test 2</test1></another1></foo2><foo3>Foo Test 3</foo3><foo4>Foo Test 4</foo4></foo>").getBytes()
)
);
String xpath = "/" + getXPath(document, "test1");
System.out.println(xpath);
Node node1 = (Node)XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath().compile(xpath).evaluate(document, XPathConstants.NODE);
Node node2 = (Node)XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath().compile("//test1").evaluate(document, XPathConstants.NODE);
//This evaluates to true, hence you may as well just use the xpath //test1.
System.out.println(node1.equals(node2));
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Likewise you could write an XML transformation that turned an xml document into a series of xpath statements but this transformation would be more complicated that writing the xpath in the first place and so largely pointless.
How's this:
private static String getXPath(Document root, String elementName)
{
try{
XPathExpression expr = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath().compile("//" + elementName);
Node node = (Node)expr.evaluate(root, XPathConstants.NODE);
if(node != null) {
return getXPath(node);
}
}
catch(XPathExpressionException e) { }
return null;
}
private static String getXPath(Node node) {
if(node == null || node.getNodeType() != Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
return "";
}
return getXPath(node.getParentNode()) + "/" + node.getNodeName();
}
Note that this is first locating the node (using XPath) and then using the located node to get its XPath. Quite the roundabout approach to get a value you already have.
Working ideone example: http://ideone.com/EL4783
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