Comments for Automatically generate XPath Expressions in Java at http://www.phurnace.com , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.phurnace.com Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:07:19 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.phurnace.com/java/automatically-generate-xpath-expressions-in-java.html#comment-87 There are some constructs that are specifically string expressions, but in addition any other kind of expression can be used in a context where a string expression is required: * A numeric expression is converted to a string by giving its conventional decimal representation, for example the value -3.5 is displayed as "-3.5", and 2.0 is displayed as "2". * A boolean expression is displayed as one of the strings "true" or "false". * When a node-set expression is used in a string context, only the first node of the node-set (in document order) is used: the value of this node is converted to a string dedicated server . The value of a text node is the character content of the node; the value of any other node is the concatenation of all its descendant text nodes. * A result tree fragment is technically converted to a string in the same way as a node-set; but since the corresponding node-set will always contain a single node, the effect is to generate all the descendant text nodes ignoring all element tags - edwin Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:59:15 +0100 http://www.phurnace.com/java/automatically-generate-xpath-expressions-in-java.html#comment-23 Every time I have to write code to parse and/or generate XML documents makes me wish to do more work in Groovy. I know that once you try it, you don't like going back to Java, I sure don't. http://groovy.codehaus.org/Reading XML with Groovy and XPath - James E. Ervin Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:14:20 +0100 http://www.phurnace.com/java/automatically-generate-xpath-expressions-in-java.html#comment-18 Change getNodeName() to use getLocalName() for documents with name space elements and adding factory.setNamespaceAware(true). Adi. - Adi B Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:52:54 +0100