upper-casing parts of xpath

[Johannes Koch]

Hi there,

I'd like to apply an xpath to both HTML and XHTML documents. First I create a DOM document with a Java DOM parser, then apply the xpath with Xalan's XPathAPI class. The problem is that in HTML DOM element names are all upper-case, whereas in Core DOM (used for the XHTML documents) element names are lower-case. When I use a lower-case xpath, e.g.

/head[@profile='http://www.example.org/MyProfile']

it won't match with a head element in an HTML document. OTOH, when I use

/HEAD[@profile='http://www.example.org/MyProfile']

it won't match with a head element in an XHTML document.

I cannot make the whole xpath lower-case in case of an XHTML document, because there may be case-sensitive things in the xpath, like the URL in the example above.

There may be some Java classes to parse the xpath string and get the element names to make them upper-case for HTML. Does anyone know of such things?

 

[Philippe Poulard]

Hi there,

I'd like to apply an xpath to both HTML and XHTML documents. First I create a DOM document with a Java DOM parser, then apply the xpath with Xalan's XPathAPI class. The problem is that in HTML DOM element names are all upper-case, whereas in Core DOM (used for the XHTML documents) element names are lower-case. When I use a lower-case xpath, e.g.

/head[@profile='http://www.example.org/MyProfile']

it won't match with a head element in an HTML document. OTOH, when I use

/HEAD[@profile='http://www.example.org/MyProfile']

it won't match with a head element in an XHTML document.

I cannot make the whole xpath lower-case in case of an XHTML document, because there may be case-sensitive things in the xpath, like the URL in the example above.

There may be some Java classes to parse the xpath string and get the element names to make them upper-case for HTML. Does anyone know of such things?

hi,

maybe you have to plug a sax parser that do the job before building the DOM model ?

another solution is to use Jaxen instead of Xalan's XPathAPI ; instead of parsing xpath expressions with jaxen.dom.DOMXPath, you can parse them with a copy of the package jaxen.dom.*, for example koch.dom.* ; the main class is DocumentNavigator, that you have to extend to write your own methods, such as getElementName that should give upper-case names...
easy !

the last solution is to use Jaxen again, and write your own SAXPath parser ; but i don't know really where to act exactly

 

[Richard Tobin]

/head[@profile='http://www.example.org/MyProfile'] /HEAD[@profile='http://www.example.org/MyProfile']

You could (rather tediously) write

/*[local-name='HEAD' or local-name='head'][@profile='http://www.example.org/MyProfile']

-- Richard

 

[Kenneth Stephen]

Hi there,

I'd like to apply an xpath to both HTML and XHTML documents. First I create a DOM document with a Java DOM parser, then apply the xpath with Xalan's XPathAPI class. The problem is that in HTML DOM element names are all upper-case, whereas in Core DOM (used for the XHTML documents) element names are lower-case. When I use a lower-case xpath, e.g.

/head[@profile='http://www.example.org/MyProfile']

it won't match with a head element in an HTML document. OTOH, when I use

/HEAD[@profile='http://www.example.org/MyProfile']

Hi,

You could write a pre-processor XSL program that converts all uppercase tags to lower-case tags. And then feed the output to your regular program. Shown below is an example of such a pre-processor (warning :
not extensively tested. use at your own risk) :

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:variable name="elementName"
select="translate(local-name,'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ','abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')" /> <xsl:element name="{$elementName}"> <xsl:for-each select="@*"> <xsl:apply-templates select="." /> </xsl:for-each> <xsl:apply-templates /> </xsl:element> </xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="@*">
<xsl:variable name="attrName"
select="translate(local-name,'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ','abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')" /> <xsl:attribute name="{$attrName}"> <xsl:value-of select="." /> </xsl:attribute> </xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="text">
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Regards,
Kenneth