RE: XMLBeans XPath

[Tracey Thomas <tr...@bea.com>]

i agree. i just ran into all this yesterday, and was quite confused when
every single query i tried to run only resulted in the error message
mentioned below.
 
being new to XPath, i simply read our documentation for how to use it:
 
http://xmlbeans.apache.org/docs/2.0.0/guide/conSelectingXMLwithXQueryPat
hXPath.html
 
this document makes no mention of saxon, or the fact that you need to
install something else that is not in the distribution jar. from reading
that page, it seems that i should just be able to use XPath without
installing anything else.
 
aside from the javadoc, i think that it should be clearly documented on
the page mentioned above what you need to do to use XPath.
 
tracey

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From: Melton, James [mailto:jmelton1@bloomberg.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:19 PM
To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
Subject: RE: XMLBeans XPath



An observation...

 

This problem seems to be mentioned regularly. Perhaps it should be
documented more extensively. The Javadoc reference shows that you can
perform xqueries but never mentions that this functionality is not fully
contained in the download. I found only one reference to this issue on
the web site and that was in the FAQ. The FAQ did not mention that Saxon
is not included in the standard build nor did it explain that it would
be downloaded by the Ant build.

 

I suggest documenting this on the install page, more details in the FAQ
(e.g. why Saxon isn't packaged with XMLBeans), and some mention in the
Javadoc in the execQuery and selectPath methods. 

 

Jim Melton

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacob Danner [mailto:jacobd@bea.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:52 PM
To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
Subject: RE: XMLBeans XPath

 

There's the problem.

To get the xpath working you need the saxon jars that are downloaded
during the build process. I think there are some licensing issues that
prevent saxon from being included in a distro. Search on Sourceforge.net
for saxon and download the 8.1 version.

As far as another, better way, I like to grab the most recent snapshot
from the subversion repository. There have been a lot of bug fixes since
the beta 1 release.

-Jacobd

 

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From: Roshan Punnoose [mailto:punnoose_roshan@bah.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 4:18 AM
To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
Subject: RE: XMLBeans XPath

 

Hi,

 

What do you mean by Ant deploy and svn version? I just took the latest
jars from the website and put it in my classpath. Is there another,
better way?

 

Roshan

 

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From: Jacob Danner [mailto:jacobd@bea.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 4:42 PM
To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
Subject: RE: XMLBeans XPath

 

'Ant deploy' should get you the xpath functionality you want.

Which svn revision number are you at?

-Jacobd

 

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From: Punnoose, Roshan [mailto:punnooser@bah-systems.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:09 AM
To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
Subject: XMLBeans XPath

 

How do I setup XMLBeans to use the Saxon XPath capability? I am having
trouble with XPath with XMLBeans, it seems like most XPath
functionaility does not work for XMLBeans. For example, I can't do
"//foo" as XPath on an XmlObject.

 

Roshan