jimmybambino
Programmer
Can someone tell me how I would pull an attribute value from a xml element if I had a value of another attribute within that same element? I need to do this with java. Can you help?
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Pulling xml attributes with java
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jimmybambino
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I'm sorry, my question wasn't worded in the most clear manner. For example, if I had this:
<Root>
<Element attr1 = "value1" attr2 = "value2"/>
<Element attr1 = "anothervalue1" attr2 = "anothervalue2"/>
</Root>
and I wanted to search for the element that had the attr2 attribute value of "value2" and need to return the value of the attr1 attribute. Can you do this in Java? I'm not sure if this is more clear. I hope so.
<Root>
<Element attr1 = "value1" attr2 = "value2"/>
<Element attr1 = "anothervalue1" attr2 = "anothervalue2"/>
</Root>
and I wanted to search for the element that had the attr2 attribute value of "value2" and need to return the value of the attr1 attribute. Can you do this in Java? I'm not sure if this is more clear. I hope so.
If you mean return the String from attr1 after finding the Element using attr2 as a filter, yes.
Are you parsing the XML into a DOM tree? If so you would perform an XPath query using //Element[@attr2=’value2’]
Then cast the returned Node to an Element and return it’s getAttribute(“attr1”);
-pete
Are you parsing the XML into a DOM tree? If so you would perform an XPath query using //Element[@attr2=’value2’]
Then cast the returned Node to an Element and return it’s getAttribute(“attr1”);
-pete
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