[Zope] XMLDocument Question

Wed, 1 Mar 2000 08:54:49 +1100

Green things...

In my experience,  objectValues('tagname') is what you're after.  It will
return a list of all children with the tag name of 'tagnam'.

so, to get the paragraphs of the a file called sample_xml containing:

<html>
  <body>
    <p>Paragraph1</p>
    <p>Paragraph2</p>
  </body>
</html>

you would use:

sample_xml[0].objectValues('body')[0].objectValues('p')

This is code i have used several times.  Of course, if you are working over the
body and p tags seperately, you can use:

<dtml-in "sample_xml[0].objectValues('body')">
  <do things here>
  <dtml-in "objectValues('p')">
    <do paragraph things here>
  </dtml-in>
</dtml-in>

Is this the sort of info you were after?

Hope I've helped some...

On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Thanks for the reply,
> 
> More specifically, I want to output html that does one of two things:
> 
> 1 - output the first two paragraphs for a summary in a table of contents
> <html><body>
> 	<p>Paragraph 1.
> 	<p>Paragraph 2.
> </body></html>
> 
> 2 - output all the paragraphs.  
> 
> In other words I want a DTML method that I can use from the object containing
> the <p>Paragraph 1.</p> in the XML.  So let's say I have a method called
> paraRender sitting in a folder and a DTML document called viewBody that calls
> this method by invoking the paraRender method for each paragraph in the
> document. 
> 
> I have ha no trouble working with attributes, and even with text content in
> tags, as long as the tagnames are not duplicated within the same parent
> object/tag.  In other words, since the <block> element object in the below XML
> contains multiple paragraphs, how do I deal with it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sean
> 
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> > Hi there, Sean
> > 
> > On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> > > Quick XMLDocument Question.
> > > 
> > > A DTD that I am working with has a structure that looks something like this:
> > > 
> > > <body.content>
> > > 	<block>
> > > 		<p>Paragraph 1.</p>
> > > 		<p>Paragraph 2.</p>
> > > 		<p>Paragraph 3.</p>
> > > 		<p>Paragraph 4.</p>
> > > 	</block>
> > > </body.content>
> > > 
> > 
> > looks simple enough...
> > 
> > > I need to be able to use dtml methods to map such paragraphs to html
> > paragraphs > within a dtml document to display the whole document using Zope
> > and XMLDocument > as a kind of server-side style sheet.
> > > 
> > 
> > erm... could you perhaps explain a little more?  I've used XML in a couple of
> > ZOPE projects, and would love to help you...  but I am unclear on exactly what
> > you are trying to do...
> > 
> > > This should be easy, but I can't find docs to figure it out myself.  Anyone
> > got > some quick answers?
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Sean
> > > 
> > 
> > Have a better one,
> > 	Curtis.
> > 
> > <dtml-var standard_work_disclaimer>

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Have a better one,
	Curtis.

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