Attributes Names of an Element

[KMART1219]

How to retrieve the attribute names not the value of an element. Attribute name is not known at run time.

 

[tsuji]

This is not a well-posed question. What is the technology involved in the generating and reading?

 

[KMART1219]

I am utilizing PL/SQL from an ORACLE database. Pulling XML from a CLOB. What is am attempting to do is validate that the Thousands of XML have the correct attributes for each element. Therefore what I was attempting to ask is How do I get the Attribute Names not the value of the attribute.

Thank You
Ken Martin
972-978-3468

 

[tsuji]

The fully enpowered tool to do validation is schema: but you need to have one. If you pull xml out as a textstream or saved to a string variable, you can load it to a dom parser and apply all the xpath method to get all the attributes (such as "//@*"). Thereafter, you know all the names of all the attributes in the document; and its value and its owner... Thereby, you can write short focused validation on specific part of the document.