• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Jack Bush'" <netbeansfan@y...>
• Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 08:48:15 +0100

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From: Jack Bush [mailto:netbeansfan@y...]
Sent: 08 October 2008 06:44
To: Michael Kay
Cc: xml-dev@l...
Subject: Re: How to display content of a collection list (XML) in separate line

Hi Michael,

 

Thanks for responding back to this question.

The following changes have been made to overcome this issue:

 

( i ) XPath.selectNodes(jdomDocument, "/html/body/div[@id='container']/div[@id='content']/p[11]/node()" );

( ii ) System.out.println(((org.jdom.Content)nearest_hotels_iterator.next()).getValue());

 

Below is the output from these change:

 

Nearest Parks:

Capital Hill (1.2km away)

 

Centenial Park (3.4km away)

 

Robertson Park (5.2km away)

 

I have been able to alleviate those blank newlines (possibly from <br />) with additional checks for no blank line prior to printing them out. Nevertheless, I am wondering whether there is a better way to do this in JDOM instead. In other word, I would like to get the following output:

Nearest Parks:

Capital Hill (1.2km away)

Centenial Park (3.4km away)

Robertson Park (5.2km away)

 

Apart from this minor cosmetic preference, this solution is working fine.

Thanks again,

Jack

----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
To: Jack Bush <netbeansfan@y...>; xml-dev@l...
Sent: Wednesday, 8 October, 2008 7:30:59 AM
Subject: RE: How to display content of a collection list (XML) in separate line

You want to iterate over the children of the p element (so it's "..../p[11]/node()"), and for each node you process, if it's a <br/> element then output a newline, otherwise output its string value.

 

Michael Kay

http://www.saxonica.com/

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From: Jack Bush [mailto:netbeansfan@y...]
Sent: 07 October 2008 21:21
To: xml-dev@l...
Subject: How to display content of a collection list (XML) in separate line

Hi All,

I would like to display the content of a collection list into individual line (which was captured from the following XML tree) to one continuous line.

<p>    // p[11]
<strong>Near by Parks:</strong> 
<br /> 
Capital Hill Park (1.2km away) 
<br /> 
Centenial Park (3.4km away) 
<br /> 
Robertson Park (5.2km away) 
<br /> 
.......
</p>

Below is the snippets that have successfully parsed these contents into a collection list using JDOM:

( 1 )  java.util.List near_by_parks = XPath.selectNodes(jdomDocument, "/html/body/div[@id='container']/div[@id='content']/p[11]" );
( 2 )  Iterator near_by_parks_iterator = near_by_parks.iterator();
( 3 )  while (near_by_parks_iterator.hasNext())
( 4 )  {
( 5 )       System.out.println("Near by parks: " + ((org.jdom.Element)near_by_parks_iterator.next()).getTextNormalize());
( 6 )  }
 
Output from this code is:
 
Near by parks: Capital Hill Park (1.2km away)Centenial Park (3.4km away)Robertson Park (5.2km away)...
 
However, I would like the following output instead in order to assign them into different variables:
 
Near by parks: Capital Hill Park (1.2km away)
Near by parks: Centenial Park (3.4km away)
Near by parks: Robertson Park (5.2km away)
......

It appears that it the ArrayList had incorrectly pick up all the contents (incorrect XPath statement) in the first place.

Your advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Jack

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  • Re: How to display content of a collection list (XML) in separate line
    • From: Jack Bush <netbeansfan@y...>