Re: xpath query

You're doing it wrong.

use XML::LibXML qw();
XML::LibXML
    ->load_xml(string => <<'XML')->find('//dependency[not(version)]');
<project>
  <dependency>
            <!-- find all such dependency tags -->
            <groupId>com.solarmetric</groupId>
            <artifactId>kodo-jdo-runtime</artifactId>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.jdo</groupId>
            <artifactId>jdo</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.2</version>
  </dependency>

</project>
XML
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The expression returns a XML::LibXML::NodeList referencing a single XML::LibXML::Element representing the first dependency element.find(

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Re^2: xpath query by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 27, 2011 at 11:13 UTC
His XPath searched for "dependency" elements regardless of their namespace. Your XPath searches for "dependency" elements in the null namespace.	[reply]
Re^2: xpath query by mojo-jojo (Novice) on Dec 28, 2011 at 06:03 UTC
why cant I find with the xpath query I have and the code I am using, cant I change the query to make it work?	[reply]
Re^3: xpath query by mojo-jojo (Novice) on Dec 28, 2011 at 10:27 UTC
Found the solution by using the following code `my $xp = XML::XPath->new( filename => $_[0] ); my $nodeset = $xp->find('//dependency[not(child::version)] '); +# find all authors foreach my $node ( $nodeset->get_nodelist ) { print XML::XPath::XMLParser::as_string($node)."\n\n"; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]