XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Benoît Thiébault <thiebault AT artenum.com>]

Hi everyone,

I found a solution to my problem but it is quite ugly.
I would have prefered that function to be included in XOM... Isn't there 
another way?

    private String buildElementPath(final Element element) {
        final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("/");

        sb.append(element.getQualifiedName());
        Node currentParentNode = element.getParent();
        Element currentParentElement = null;
        if (currentParentNode instanceof Element) {
            currentParentElement = (Element) currentParentNode;
        }

        while (currentParentElement != null) {
            sb.insert(0, currentParentElement.getQualifiedName());
            sb.insert(0, "/");
            currentParentNode = currentParentNode.getParent();
            if (currentParentNode instanceof Element) {
                currentParentElement = (Element) currentParentNode;
            } else {
                currentParentElement = null;
            }
        }

        return sb.toString();
    }

Le 11/07/2012 10:29, Benoît Thiébault a écrit :
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am new to XOM and so far, I managed to use it successfully.
> There is however something that I would like to do and can't find a way
> to do it.
>
> I want to retrieve, as a String, the path to root of a given Element.
> For instance, consider the following XML file:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <bookstore>
>     <book>
>       <title lang="eng">Harry Potter</title>
>       <price>29.99</price>
>     </book>
> </bookstore>
>
> When reading the Element associated with the <title> tag, I would like
> to build the String: /bookstore/book/title.
> I thought the following line would work :
> element.getValue();
>
> But this only returns a bunch of spaces (it seems to be the indentation
> spaces of the XML file)...
> What did I do wrong?
>
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