Selecting branches/nodes in XML documents

[cmckenna82]

Hi,

Im pretty new to XML and was just wondering what is the best way (s) to:

(1) Select a specific branch/node given a particular XML document?

(2) Verify that 2 branches from 2 xml documents have the same meaning.


Any examples of these would be great, im researching XML DOM and X Path stuff but sample code is always the best way for me to pick up on the new concepts.

I have to build these to functions into a HTML interface.

Any advice/examples/feedback would be much appreciated.

many thanks
Ciaran

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Your second question is rather ambiguous, but I think that once you understand the basics (by reading the stickies and the articles/sites linked to within) you will able to answer it for yourself very easily.

[Alex Vincent]

I can tell you you're on the right track On your first question, the easiest way via DOM is to give the element (if you are referring to an element) a unique id, and then document.getElementById. XPath is more flexible, and Mozilla even supports an XPath DOM

To help you solve your problem, why don't you start with some sample XML code, and explain what you want to do exactly, using the XML as a guide for the rest of us?