RE: Question on XML parsing

Here is how I do it in my free tool available at http://mowyourlawn.com

     P DOMNode_getAttrs...
     P                 B                   Export
     D DOMNode_getAttrs...
     D                 PI              *
     D pNode                           *   Value

     D namedNodeMap    S               *
      /Free

       namedNodeMap = QxmlDOM_Node_getAttributes(pNode);
       checkForErrors();
       Return namedNodeMap;

      /End-Free
     P DOMNode_getAttrs...
     P                 E 


Hope that helps,
Aaron Bartell


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 8:30 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Question on XML parsing


Hi,

 

I am using the XML toolkit for iSeries version 4.00 to parse some
documents and extract data.

I am using the DOM APIs to build the tree structure of the XML and then
extract the data. However I have some problems. The attributes are not
getting listed as nodes in the tree at all. 

 

For example I have the following XML

<catalog>

<!-- Sample -->

            <book id="101">

                        <title>Book1</title>

                        <author>Author1</author>

                        <price>1200</price>

            </book>

            <book id="102">

                        <title>Book2</title>

                        <author>Author2</author>

                        <price>2400</price>

            </book>

</catalog>

 

My understanding is that when I list the children of element Node
'book', there should be a node of type 2 or Qxml_ATTR_NOD. This node
should have the name 'id' and the value '101'. However when I build a
nodelist of the children for this node using the
QxmlDOM_Node_getChildNodes API, and then see the type for each node
separately I do not see any nodes of type 2. Is my understanding wrong?
Can someone help me?

 

Part of the code that I am using is as given below: (its not the full
code, only the relevant part)

 

C                   EVAL      %str(GETTAGOPT@:256) = '*'


 * get a node list of all elements.


C                   EVAL      DOMNODELST@ =


C                             QxmlDOM_Document_getElementsByTagName


C                               (DOMDOC@:GETTAGOPT@:Qxml_CHARSTR:20)


 * get number of elements


C                   EVAL      WVELEMCNT = QxmlDOM_NodeList_getLength


C                                            (DOMNODELST@)


C                   IF        WVELEMCNT>0


C                   EXCEPT    HDR


C                   EVAL      WVCNTR1=0


C                   DOW       WVCNTR1<WVELEMCNT


 * point to each node separately now.


C                   EVAL      SGLNODEPTR@=QxmlDOM_NodeList_item


C                                         (DOMNODELST@:WVCNTR1)


C                   EVAL      NODETYPE=QxmlDOM_Node_getNodeType


C                                      (SGLNODEPTR@)


C                   IF        *INOV=*ON


C                   EXCEPT    HDR


C                   EVAL      *INOV=*OFF


C                   ENDIF


C                   EXCEPT    ELEMNUM


C                   EXCEPT    NODETYP


 * find the element name  for this one.


C                   EVAL      WVELEMNAM=$FINDNAME(SGLNODEPTR@)


C                   EVAL      WVELEMVAL=$NODEVAL(SGLNODEPTR@)


 * print the name and value


C                   IF        *INOV=*ON


C                   EXCEPT    HDR


C                   EVAL      *INOV=*OFF


C                   ENDIF


C                   EXCEPT    NODENAME


C                   EXCEPT    NODEVAL


 * get a list of children


C                   EVAL      CHLNODELST@=QxmlDOM_Node_getChildNodes


C                                         (SGLNODEPTR@)


C                   EVAL      WVNUMCHL=QxmlDOM_NodeList_getLength


C                                      (CHLNODELST@)


C                   EVAL      WVCNTR2=0


C                   DOW       WVCNTR2<WVNUMCHL


C                   EVAL      SGLCHLPTR@=QxmlDOM_NodeList_item


C                                        (CHLNODELST@:WVCNTR2)


C                   EVAL      NODETYPE=QxmlDOM_Node_getNodeType


C                                      (SGLCHLPTR@)


C                   EVAL      WVELEMNAM=$FINDNAME(SGLCHLPTR@)


C                   EVAL      WVELEMVAL=$NODEVAL(SGLCHLPTR@)


C                   IF        *INOV=*ON


C                   EXCEPT    HDR


C                   EVAL      *INOV=*OFF


C                   ENDIF


C                   EXCEPT    CHLDNUM


C                   EXCEPT    CHLDTYP


C                   EXCEPT    CHLDNAME


C                   EXCEPT    CHLDVAL


C                   EVAL      WVCNTR2=WVCNTR2+1


C                   ENDDO


 * next element


C                   EVAL      WVCNTR1=WVCNTR1+1


 *


C                   ENDDO


C                   ENDIF


 

Procedure $FINDNAME simply returns the output of
QxmlDOM_Node_getNodeName and $NODEVAL returns the output of
QxmlDOM_Node_getNodeValue.

When I check the nodetype of the children of element node 'book' there
are no nodes of type 2 (attribute node)

 

 

- Jason


                
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