Strange structure to be parsed

[francescomoi]

Hi.

I want to parse this XML file:
-----------------
<doc>
<item>
<name>John Morrow</name>
<contact type="email">jo **@john.com</contact>
Blah blah
</item>
</doc>
--------------------

I'm able to get 'John Morrow':
$doc->getDocumentEle ment()->getElementsByT agName('item')->
getElementsByTa gName('name')->item(0)->getFirstChil d->getNodeValue ;

But I don't know to get 'Blah Blah'. Any suggestion?

Thank you very much.

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

* fr**********@eu rope.com wrote in comp.text.xml:

I want to parse this XML file:
-----------------
<doc>
<item>
<name>John Morrow</name>
<contact type="email">jo **@john.com</contact>
Blah blah
</item>
</doc>
--------------------

I'm able to get 'John Morrow':
$doc->getDocumentEle ment()->getElementsByT agName('item')->
getElementsByT agName('name')->item(0)->getFirstChil d->getNodeValue ;

But I don't know to get 'Blah Blah'. Any suggestion?

Well, it's the getLastChild of the item element, so something like

$doc
->getDocumentEle ment()
->getElementsByT agName('item')
->item(0)
->getLastChild
->getNodeValue ;

should do, depending on whether your implementation supports such a
method. You did not say what you are using so I have to guess... Note
that e.g. XPath might be a better way to query for such information.
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[gimme_this_gimme_that]

There are so many tools to do that ... if I gave you a solution you
probably wouldn't be interested in it.

[Paul Allen]

Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:

* fr**********@eu rope.com wrote in comp.text.xml:

I want to parse this XML file:
-----------------
<doc>
<item>
<name>John Morrow</name>
<contact type="email">jo **@john.com</contact>
Blah blah
</item>
</doc>
--------------------

I'm able to get 'John Morrow':
$doc->getDocumentEle ment()->getElementsByT agName('item')->
getElementsBy TagName('name')->item(0)->getFirstChil d->getNodeValue ;

But I don't know to get 'Blah Blah'. Any suggestion?

Well, it's the getLastChild of the item element, so something like

$doc
->getDocumentEle ment()
->getElementsByT agName('item')
->item(0)
->getLastChild
->getNodeValue ;

should do, depending on whether your implementation supports such a
method. You did not say what you are using so I have to guess... Note
that e.g. XPath might be a better way to query for such information.

This does it, although I'd welcome critiques of the XPath expression:

--------------------- snip -------------------------
use XML::LibXML;
$parser = XML::LibXML->new();
$doc = $parser->parse_file("ju nkfile.xml");
$root = $doc->documentElemen t();
($node) = $root->findnodes("//item/child::node()[position()=last ()]");
print "\"", $node->nodeValue, "\"\n";
--------------------- snip --------------------------

It prints:
"
Blah blah
"

Paul Allen

[Andy Dingley]

On 15 Feb 2005 16:04:54 -0800, fr**********@eu rope.com wrote:

Any suggestion?

Redesign the schema. That sort of mixed content is always a pain to
work with.