We are developing an application that involves a substantial amount of XML transformations. We do not have any proper input test data per se, only DTD or XSD files. We’d like to generate our test data ourselves from these files. Is there an easy/free way to do that? Edit There are apparently no free tools … Read more
I have googled this question, but I do not understand clearly what is an XML schema and DTD (document type definition), and why the XML schema is more powerful compared to DTD. Any guidance would be highly appreciated. 12 Answers 12
I am trying to implement an if -else statement in XSLT but my code just doesn’t parse. Does anyone have any ideas? <xsl:variable name=”CreatedDate” select=”@createDate”/> <xsl:variable name=”IDAppendedDate” select=”2012-01-01″ /> <b>date: <xsl:value-of select=”$CreatedDate”/></b> <xsl:if test=”$CreatedDate > $IDAppendedDate”> <h2> mooooooooooooo </h2> </xsl:if> <xsl:else> <h2> dooooooooooooo </h2> </xsl:else> 5 Answers 5
What XPath can I use to select any category with a name attribute specified and any child node author with the value specified. I’ve tried different variations of the path below with no success: //quotes/category[@name=”Sport” and author=”James Small”] The XML: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <quotes> <category name=”Sport”> <author>James Small<quote date=”09/02/1985″>Quote One</quote><quote date=”11/02/1925″>Quote nine</quote></author> </category> <category name=”Music”> … Read more
Given this XML, what XPath returns all elements whose prop attribute contains Foo (the first three nodes): <bla> <a prop=”Foo1″/> <a prop=”Foo2″/> <a prop=”3Foo”/> <a prop=”Bar”/> </bla> 9 Answers 9
Is there a package out there, for Ubuntu and/or CentOS, that has a command-line tool that can execute an XPath one-liner like foo //element@attribute filename.xml or foo //element@attribute < filename.xml and return the results line by line? I’m looking for something that would allow me to just apt-get install foo or yum install foo and … Read more
What’s the difference between xsd:include and xsd:import? When would you use one instead of the other, and when might it not matter? 6 Answers 6
I have this dtd : http://fast-code.sourceforge.net/template.dtd But when I include in an xml I get the warning : No grammar constraints (DTD or XML schema) detected for the document. The xml is : <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <!DOCTYPE templates PUBLIC “//UNKNOWN/” “http://fast-code.sourceforge.net/template.dtd”> <templates> <template type=”INSTANCE_OF_CLASS”> <description>Used to Create instance of class</description> <variation>asasa</variation> <variation-field>asasa</variation-field> <class-pattern>asasa</class-pattern> <getter-setter>setter</getter-setter> <allowed-file-extensions>java</allowed-file-extensions> … Read more
I have following XML. <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <Employees> <Employee id=”3″> <age>40</age> <name>Tom</name> <gender>Male</gender> <role>Manager</role> </Employee> <Employee id=”4″> <age>25</age> <name>Meghna</name> <gender>Female</gender> <role>Manager</role> </Employee> </Employees> I want to select Employee element with id=”4″. I am using below XPath expression which is not returning anything. //Employee/[@id=’4′]/text() I checked it at http://chris.photobooks.com/xml/default.htm and it says invalid xpath, not sure … Read more
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