Re^2: Perl XPath

Hi,

Thanks for your response.

Is there a way that I could pass a node to setNodeText()? I'm able to retrieve the different node values using getNodeText() method by passing the $node parameter. I'm assuming that I could do the same for setNodeText() method but somehow the method doesn't recognize the $node in XPath.

Thanks

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Re^3: Perl XPath by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 27, 2012 at 20:10 UTC
I assume once you have the XML::LibXML::Text node, you can use `->replaceData` or `->setData` to change the values. But I've never done anything like it using XML::LibXML, so you'll have to find out whether it works yourself.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Perl XPath by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 27, 2012 at 21:35 UTC
The problem with that route is that it fails for elements with zero or more than one text child nodes. That may not be an issue here.	[reply]
Re^4: Perl XPath by GoForIt (Novice) on Feb 28, 2012 at 19:26 UTC
I used the below approach to replace the node value. `my $parent = $node->getParentNode(); $parent->removeChild($node); my $element = XML::XPath::Node::Element->new('category +'); my $attr = XML::XPath::Node::Attribute->new($key, $val +ue); $element->appendAttribute($attr); $result = $parent->appendChild($element);` [download] It works fine but the execution time is long. I've about 1000 nodes to change and the script takes 40 minutes to finish. Is this a bad approach?	[reply] [d/l]