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Thank you Titan,

now it works.

Getting data out of a xml file structure like that:



I tested XPath with 2 different lines of code.

Line 1

Line 2


Line1 works as expected and info contains "mypw02".
With Line2, info contains "".
Could you please explain to me these 2 different results?
Thanks

Your XML file is invalid, <username/> is not a proper closing tag and <password/> is a fused node and should not have any text after it.

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I'm sorry... bad copy/edit/paste. xml file looks like:

Thats an outstanding bug which I will fix soon.

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Titan,
I am having an issue with changing code written in Xpath 1.03 to Xpath 2.06a.
How do I get the following code that was working in 1.03 to work with 2.06a.

XPath 1.03 XML Results:

XPath 2.06a XML Results:

Other system details: Auto Hotkey version 1.0.47.04 running on Vista Enterprise OS.

Also some feedback on: xpath_save() function
I think line 267...

shoud be (as it not deleting the XML file).

and the XML saves an extra white space at the end of the file, therefore add at line 264 (XML not read into IE7)

Look forward to your reply

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Hi, all you need to do is add /text() to the end of your expressions (i.e. ".../NowUTC[+1]/text(), A_NowUTC)". Without them xpath tries to replace the newly created XML node ("<NowUTC></NowUTC>") with the value of A_NowUTC. I hope this makes sense.

Thanks for the bug report, I will fix it for the next update (whenever I get around to that).

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Thank you, the following code works with XPath 2.06a

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Every time I use xpath_save() to save my modified XML, I get an extra xml definition line added, and my old one gets its opening caret changed, like this:


I had to add this line right before it checks for <?xml:

That seems to have fixed it.

Edit: It's also appending to my file if I don't manually delete it before I call xpath_save... even though the function looks like it's supposed to delete the file.
This looks odd to me:

Shouldn't both FileDelete and FileAppend be working on the same file? I modified it like this and it works better:


So I've essentially resolved my issues I suppose, but I'm surprised neither of these issues have been apparent before?

It also appears the documentation for this function is out of date.

I can't use your example in the xpath() document to save my file (eg. the variables are switched) and I can't use the example in xpath() to load my file (specifying the path as the first and only parameter). I figured it out pretty quickly, but it added some moments of confusion.

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A couple more issues:
This is returning the raw XML source rather than the position:


When I try to create new nodes:


It's simple placing the raw text I add (contents of ThisTitle) rather than the text wrapped in the new XML nodes. So it just appends the text right where it would normally start the new tags.

I'm using Vista 64-bit but I don't really see that mattering in this case

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Use /gameversions/game[+1]/title[+1]/text()

Could you post a sample of your XML file I can try this with?

Thanks for the bugs you mentioned earlier with the docs and XML declaration issue. I will look into them tonight.

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Update 2.10a should resolve those issues.

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Your text() suggestion partially worked, thanks!.

Note that the documentation lists this in the examples:


(In my example) Adding text() to the end of it actually adds new title nodes now, but not the game nodes. It seems I'll have to split it up into two commands, one to create the game node and one to add the title node to it. I'll post back if that works.

Is 2.10a released? It looks like 2.05 is listed on your site. Thanks!

Update: I changed my code to look like this:

Only now I experience the odd behavior of every loop in the iteration which uses this code taking progressively longer and longer, until around the 20th time I get a max memory used error. Did I split the command up wrong? I'm trying to add a new <game> node then a new <title> node inside that.

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Yep, a link to 2.10a is on my first post here.

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OK, now I'm getting somewhere with this function!

It now creates proper XML files (albiet they are only one line now)

The problem is that it's still putting an invalid copy of my declaration back into the final file, only now at the end.

Here's what I started with:


I loaded the file, added new nodes, and wrote the file again, and this is what comes out:


Sorry for the length, but notice my original declaration line at the end of the file with an invalid starting caret. I'm not sure how that caret is being converted, but I'm not doing it in my code.

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