Xpath Help,

[HeeroFCC]

Hi all,

Ack I feel dumb asking this question, but I can't seem to get the proper x-path expression for this xml. Here it is:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="

http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"

xmlns:SOAP-ENC="

http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"

xmlns:xsi="

http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

xmlns:SOAP-ENV="

http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"

xmlns:xsd="

http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<namesp1:get_genes_by_pathwayResponse xmlns:namesp1="SOAP/KEGG">
<return SOAP-ENC:arrayType="xsd:string[25]" xsi:type="SOAP-ENC:Array" xmlns:r="SOAP/KEGG">
<item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:2203</item>
<item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:221823</item><item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:226</item><item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:229</item><item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:22934</item><item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:230</item><item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:2539</item><item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:25796</item><item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:2821</item><item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:51071</item><item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:5211</item><item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:5213</item><item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:5214</item><item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:5226</item><item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:5236</item><item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:5238</item><item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:5631</item><item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:5634</item><item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:6120</item><item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:64080</item><item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:6888</item><item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:7086</item><item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:84076</item><item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:8789</item><item xsi:type="xsd:string">hsa:9563</item></return></namesp1:get_genes_by_pathwayResponse></SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

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Basically, i want to get the values out of the item nodes, but i can't seem to figure out the x-path expressions because of the namespaces. I've tried like everything.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks

 

[k5tm]

Here is the really wordy XPath expression for specifying all the <item> elements in a nodeset:

/*[local-name()='Envelope' and namespace-uri()='[URL unfurl="true"]http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'[/URL]]/*[local-name()='Body' and namespace-uri()='[URL unfurl="true"]http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'[/URL]][1]/*[local-name()='get_genes_by_pathwayResponse' and namespace-uri()='SOAP/KEGG'][1]/return[1]/item

There quite possibly is a shorter way of specifying what you want but your statement, "i want to get the values out of the item nodes," is not very specific.

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com

 

[JontyMC]

Make sure you specify the namespaces in the XSL:

/SOAP-ENV:Envelope/SOAP-ENV:Body/namesp1:get_genes_by_pathwayResponse/return/item

Or if you wanted you could just do //item, but that will search every node and can be slow for large documents.

Jon

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