Another XMLSlurper question

[CosmicRider]

I have failed in my attempts to get the text "product foo provides a low cost solution for a broad range of  applications." from the following XML snippet:


<app.descriptions readable.name="Application descriptions">
  <description arg1="val1" arg2="val2" arg3="val3" field="Application Description">product foo provides a low cost solution for a broad range of  applications. </description> 
</app.descriptions>

any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Bob Brown]

This worked for me in 2.0.0.0-beta-2 GroovyConsole:

---
def xml = """
<app.descriptions readable.name="Application descriptions">
  <description arg1="val1" arg2="val2" arg3="val3" field="Application Description">product foo provides a low cost solution for a broad range of applications. </description>
</app.descriptions>
"""

def appDescriptions = new XmlSlurper().parseText(xml)

println appDescriptions.description
println appDescriptions.description.@field
println appDescriptions.@'readable.name'
---

Gives:

---
product foo provides a low cost solution for a broad range of applications.
Application Description
Application descriptions
---

It should work in earlier versions as well...

HTH

BOB

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> I have failed in my attempts to get the text "product foo provides a low cost
> solution for a broad range of  applications." from the following XML
> snippet:
>
>
> <app.descriptions readable.name="Application descriptions">
>   <description arg1="val1" arg2="val2" arg3="val3" field="Application
> Description">product foo provides a low cost solution for a broad range of
> applications. </description> </app.descriptions>
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
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[Dinko Srkoc]

new XmlSlurper().parseText(xmlString).description.text()

The example from XmlSlurper documentation covers your use case:
http://groovy.codehaus.org/api/groovy/util/XmlSlurper.html

Cheers,
Dinko

On 25 April 2012 02:45, CosmicRider <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I have failed in my attempts to get the text "product foo provides a low cost
> solution for a broad range of  applications." from the following XML
> snippet:
>
>
> <app.descriptions readable.name="Application descriptions">
>   <description arg1="val1" arg2="val2" arg3="val3" field="Application
> Description">product foo provides a low cost solution for a broad range of
> applications. </description>
> </app.descriptions>
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>
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[CosmicRider]

Bob, thanks for the quick reply. I am surprised by the actual solution, which means there is a gap in my understanding. Could you please explain why appDescriptions.description generates the correct result? My initial thought was that "product foo provides..." was a value off of the field attribute

[Bob Brown]

Not really, "product foo provides..." is the CONTENT of the <description>
Element. The value of the field attribute is " Application Description" (no
quotes).

And, as Dinko pointed out, I probably SHOULD have use .text():

println appDescriptions.description.text()
println [hidden email]()
println appDescriptions.@'readable.name'.text()

BOB

> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [groovy-user] RE: Another XMLSlurper question
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> Bob, thanks for the quick reply. I am surprised by the actual solution,
which
> means there is a gap in my understanding. Could you please explain why
> appDescriptions.description generates the correct result? My initial
thought

> was that "product foo provides..." was a value off of the field attribute
>
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