Question

Following is the XML structure –

<Projects>
   <Project>
     <Name>Web Site Designing</Name>
     <Members>
        <MName>Jack</MName>
        <MName>John</MName>
        <MName>Jill</MName>
     </Members>
   </Project>
   <Project>
     <Name>Site Ranking</Name>
     <Members>
        <MName>Jack</MName>
        <MName>James</MName>
     </Members>
   </Project>
   <Project>
     <Name>E-Mailing</Name>
     <Members>
        <MName>Matt</MName>
     </Members>
   </Project>
<Projects>

What will be the XPath Query to get the following output in Java –

Web Site Designing,Jack,John,Jill
Site Ranking,Jack,James
E-Mailing,Matt

Right now the Java Code I am using is not doing the same. Pls find the java code below –

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String pName = "";
String mName = "";
Document doc = builder.parse("Project.xml");
XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile("//Projects/Project");
Object result = expr.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.NODESET);
NodeList nodes = (NodeList) result;
BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("projInfo.txt"));
Node node;
for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) 
{
    node = nodes.item(i);
    pName = xpath.evaluate("Name",node);
    mName = xpath.evaluate("Members/MName",node);

    //Here's something worng
    out.write(pName + "," + mName + "\r\n");
}
out.close();
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Have a nice day, JB

Answer 1

mName = xpath.evaluate(“Members/MName”,node);

This returns a node-list, but in the next code line:

out.write(pName + "," + mName + "\r\n"); 

you are treating it as a single string.

It would be correct to process all nodes contained in mName iterating through mName.