Looking for way to display multiple values of a tag

[renthorin]

I am trying to map a HUGE concatinated document comprised of several hundred individual documents.

I am looking for an easy way, perhaps via a utility, that will show me all the values for a specified tag.

Example:

<Pubstatus> has three values: "add", "change", "delete".

I know this to be true. What I want is something that I could define the tag <Pubstatus> and have it parse the entire document and return the 3 values "add", "change", "delete".

Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[JontyMC]

That didn't make much sense, try to explain it a bit more.

Jon

"I don't regret this, but I both rue and lament it.

 

[renthorin]

Ummmm..........

one document comprised of many articles added together.
One tag is common to each article.

I have to do a "FIND" for the tag and read the value for each article in the concatinated document.

I write down the different values the tag has.

I want to know if there is a utility that can look through the entire document for me and display a list of all the values for that tag that it encountered.

I may end up writing a perl script but just wondering if there is anything else out there that could do that.

 

[k5tm]

Certainly. XSLT can do this. Have you any knowledge of XSLT?

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com

 

[renthorin]

Alas I do not :-(

 

[JontyMC]

What does your XML look like? Is it this?:

<docs>
  <doc>
    <Pubstatus>
      <add>a value</add>
      <change>a value</change>
      <delete>a value</delete>
    </Pubstatus>
  </doc>
  <doc>
    <Pubstatus>
      <add>a value</add>
      <change>a value</change>
      <delete>a value</delete>
    </Pubstatus>
  </doc>
  ......
</docs>

If so its easy to return the values. Best way depends on what you want to do with them. If you simply want to get them on a one-off, you can just download XMLSpy and write a simple stylesheet. If you want to make it into a dynamic application, you'll have to incorporate the stylesheet into some sort of program. Perl has XSL modules:

http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Perl/XSL-Transformation-with-Perl/

I've never used them myself, I tend to use C# .net.

Jon

"I don't regret this, but I both rue and lament it.

 

[renthorin]

No, my document looks like:

<docs>
<doc>
<Pubstatus status= "add">
</Pubstatus>
</doc>

<docs>
<doc>
<Pubstatus status= "add">
</Pubstatus>
</doc>

<docs>
<doc>
<Pubstatus status= "change">
</Pubstatus>
</doc>


and I need to know out of the 800+ documents what all of the different values for "status=" are.

In this case it would return 2 vaules: "add" and "change

 

[k5tm]

Oops! Your XML is not well-formed. Can you change this to the following?

<docs>
  <doc>
    <Pubstatus status= "add">
    </Pubstatus>
  </doc>

  <doc>
    <Pubstatus status= "add">
    </Pubstatus>
  </doc>

  <doc>
    <Pubstatus status= "change">
    </Pubstatus>
  </doc>

</docs>

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com

 

[k5tm]

renthorin

If you can make the minor change suggest here, you can easily accomplish what you want to do.

Please reply!

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com