Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks
Clear questions and runnable code
get the best and fastest answer
 
PerlMonks  

Re: Some questions from beginning user of XML::LibXML and XPath

by Corion (Patriarch)
on Oct 16, 2012 at 09:16 UTC ( [id://999264]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Some questions from beginning user of XML::LibXML and XPath

If your XML is machine-generated and consistent, a line-by-line regular expression might still get you the results faster. But if your preconditions stretch across multiple lines, I'd stay with XML::LibXML.

From my cursory reading of your XML and your source code, it seems that you are interested in the IntDir and OutDir nodes, as "only these can contain the ReleaseDLL directory" (famous last words here). I'd then make the XPath expression more explicit:

# For the IntDir nodes //PropertyGroup[contains(\@Condition,'$proj')]/IntDir # For the OutDir nodes //PropertyGroup[contains(\@Condition,'$proj')]/OutDir

If you are hell-bent on producing and using one single XPath expression, you can combine the two using the self:: axis. I prefer to avoid such stuff and just keep a list of XPath expressions to run instead:

//PropertyGroup[contains(\@Condition,'$proj')]/*[self::IntDir or self: +:OutDir]

Log In?
Username:
Password:

What's my password?
Create A New User
Domain Nodelet?
Node Status?
node history
Node Type: note [id://999264]
help
Chatterbox?
and the web crawler heard nothing...

How do I use this?Last hourOther CB clients
Other Users?
Others chanting in the Monastery: (5)
As of 2024-03-29 11:02 GMT
Sections?
Information?
Find Nodes?
Leftovers?
    Voting Booth?

    No recent polls found