I have XML file parsed by XPath to get all the parameters in it, and then i want to get the full path to each parameter but my code didn't work for some reason. The Code:
ArrayList<String> names = new ArrayList<String>();
ArrayList<String> paths = new ArrayList<String>();
URL oracle = new URL("http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=2502265");
InputStream is = oracle.openStream();
org.w3c.dom.Document doc = null;
DocumentBuilderFactory domFactory;
DocumentBuilder builder;
try {
domFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
domFactory.setNamespaceAware(true);
builder = domFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
doc = builder.parse(is);
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.err.println("unable to load XML: " + ex);
}
XPathFactory factory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
XPath xpath = factory.newXPath();
XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile("//*/@*");
Object result = expr.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.NODESET);
NodeList nl = (NodeList) result;
for(int j=0 ; j < nl.getLength() ; j++){
names.add(nl.item(j).getNodeName());
Node node = nl.item(j);
ArrayList<String> parents = new ArrayList<String>();
while(node.getParentNode() != null){ // it didn't even gone through this loop
parents.add(node.getNodeName());
node = node.getParentNode();
}
System.out.println(parents);
}
The expression //*/@*
returns an empty NodeSet.
The code below retrieve the paths you need:
import org.w3c.dom.Attr;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
public class SO {
@SuppressWarnings("nls")
public static void main( String[] args ) throws Exception {
List< String > names = new ArrayList<>();
URL oracle =
new URL( "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=2502265" );
InputStream is = oracle.openStream();
org.w3c.dom.Document doc = null;
DocumentBuilderFactory domFactory;
DocumentBuilder builder;
try {
domFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
domFactory.setNamespaceAware(true);
builder = domFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
doc = builder.parse(is);
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.err.println("unable to load XML: " + ex);
}
XPathFactory factory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
XPath xpath = factory.newXPath();
XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile( "//*:*/@*" );
Object result = expr.evaluate( doc, XPathConstants.NODESET );
NodeList nl = (NodeList) result;
for(int j=0 ; j < nl.getLength() ; j++){
names.add( nl.item(j).getNodeName());
Node node = nl.item(j);
String path = "." + node.getNodeName() + " = " + node.getNodeValue();
node = ((Attr)node).getOwnerElement();
while( node != null) {
path = node.getNodeName() + '/' + path;
node = node.getParentNode();
}
System.out.println( path );
}
}
}