Re: Entity tags and xerces

[Madhu Lagu <ma...@gmail.com>]

Anyone used this combination before?

xerces parser , xalan xpath, use xpath to read nodes from 2 xml files - one
referencing the other via entity tags?

thanks,
- madhu

On 4/26/07, Madhu Lagu <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Can anyone give more pointers to solving this problem?
>
> On 4/24/07, Madhu Lagu <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 4/24/07, David Bertoni <db...@apache.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Madhu Lagu wrote:
> > > > On 4/23/07, David Bertoni <db...@apache.org> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Madhu Lagu wrote:
> > > >> > Thanks for pointing out the errors, but it still does not work
> > > after
> > > >> > correcting the errors.
> > > ...
> > >
> > > >> >
> > > >> > This Xpath works: /Configuration/test/text()
> > > >> > This does not :-(
> > > /Configuration/Component/element/property[1]/text()
> > > >>
> > > >> What XPath implementation are you using?  Xerces-C doesn't provide
> > > >> such an
> > > >> implementation.
> > > >>
> > > >> If I use Xalan-C's sample program SimpleXPathAPI, I get the
> > > expected
> > > >> result.  Is that what you're using?  If so, you need to post your
> > > >> question
> > > >> on the Xalan-C User list along with your code.
> > > >>
> > > >> If you're using some other implementation, you need to ask on
> > > another
> > > >> mailing list.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I am using the XPath implementation from xalan but the xerces-c
> > > dombuilder,
> > > > parser.
> > >
> > > The perhaps you need to disable the option to create entity references
> > >
> > > nodes.  Otherwise, the DOM is not compatible with Xalan-C, and the
> > > entity
> > > is represented by an entity reference node, and not the expanded
> > > value:
> > >
> > >
> > > http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/program-dom.html#DOMBuilderFeatures
> > >
> > >      builder->setFeature(XMLUni::fgDOMEntities, false);
> >
> >
> > I did set this to false. Also I set these other options to true:
> > fgDOMValidation, fgDOMNamespaces, fgXercesSchema,
> > fgXercesSchemaFullChecking, fgDOMDatatypeNormalization,
> > fgDOMValidateIfSchema
> >
> > Also I am using xerces 2.7 and xalan 1.10.
> >
> > The way I am using xalan and xerces to parse Xml files works perfectly
> > fine for all XPaths except the ones in which the xml files are referencing
> > each other using entity tags.
> >
> >
> > Dave
> > >
> >
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> >