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<task id="GUID-92C2317A-57B8-558E-984B-B10FD0404981" xml:lang="en"><title>Searching

a DOM Tree using XPath</title><shortdesc>This topic explains how to search in a DOM tree using an XPath

expression. </shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><taskbody>

<prereq><p>Before you start, you must: </p> <ul>

<li id="GUID-3B777E07-07AE-5EF0-8CB1-F07217AFB2C2"><p>understand <xref href="http://www.w3schools.com/XPath/xpath_syntax.asp" scope="external">XPath syntax</xref> and the concept of <xref href="http://www.w3.org/DOM/" scope="external">Document Object Model (DOM)</xref>. </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-ADB75A14-811C-53F9-90C3-B068D1506EE1"><p>understand the architecture

and classes of the <xref href="GUID-5ACFA8E4-3C4B-5851-A43E-9FA72D0B8403.dita">XML

Engine</xref> component. </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-1AF969E2-E11F-538B-A33C-762B1F0E5EA6"><p>have created an <xref href="GUID-5748D958-9480-3358-A399-6B92293B86D9.dita"><apiname>RXmlEngDocument</apiname></xref> (called <codeph>myDoc</codeph> in this

example), either by parsing an XML file (as indicated in the <xref href="GUID-C5C30218-311C-58D9-A990-3F95642F7517.dita">XML

DOM Parsing Tutorial</xref>) or by adding nodes to a new DOM tree. </p> </li>

</ul> </prereq>

<context><p>XPath is a simple query language for XML. An XPath expression

describes a subset of an XML tree, such as all the elements with a specified

name, or all the children of a specific node. Evaluating an XPath expression

means searching in the XML tree for matching nodes or content: clients of

the XML Engine use it to explore XML data. </p> <p>The following steps show

how to make an XPath query with the XML Engine. </p> </context>

<steps id="GUID-AE83D04E-2094-5F9C-AD56-D9803C96FB2C">

<step id="GUID-3E1709B9-A282-533F-B893-3E4962B29AA4"><cmd>Create an instance

of <xref href="GUID-5748D958-9480-3358-A399-6B92293B86D9.dita"><apiname>RXmlEngXPathExpression</apiname></xref> by calling the <xref href="GUID-5748D958-9480-3358-A399-6B92293B86D9.dita"><apiname>TXmlEngXpathEvaluator::CreateExpressionL()</apiname></xref> method. </cmd>

<stepxmp><codeblock id="GUID-95ED0151-D8E7-5CB2-9F3A-90C691B253B1" xml:space="preserve">RXmlEngXPathExpression expr = TXmlEngXpathEvaluator::CreateExpressionL( "@*" );</codeblock> </stepxmp>

<info>This XPath expression is only useful to illustrate this tutorial: it

returns all the attributes in an XML tree. </info>

</step>

<step id="GUID-77F768C2-E2F8-55AF-AAC3-DF95347AFBD2"><cmd/>

<info>Evaluate the XPath expression by applying it to your XML document. </info>

<stepxmp><codeblock id="GUID-65F9578E-CF76-5CCA-A8F5-D73E32C7D9D8" xml:space="preserve">RXmlEngXPathResult searchResult = expr.EvaluateL( myDoc );</codeblock> </stepxmp>

<stepresult>The <codeph>searchResult</codeph> variable contains a tree of <xref href="GUID-5748D958-9480-3358-A399-6B92293B86D9.dita"><apiname>TXmlEngAttr</apiname></xref> objects. This tree is a subset of the DOM

tree. </stepresult>

</step>

<step id="GUID-C9981839-7BDB-5448-B161-A3524DD79AC9"><cmd/>

<info>Use the result, for example by accessing it as a node set as follows: </info>

<stepxmp><codeblock id="GUID-ABFD2D88-C8A0-58FE-9408-05B3F2714794" xml:space="preserve">RXMLEngNodeSet set = result.AsNodeSet();

if( for TInt i = 0; i < set.Length(); i++ )

    {

    TXmlEngNode resultNode = set[i];

    /* [...] do something with the result */

    }</codeblock> </stepxmp>

</step>

<step id="GUID-0D55DFAA-B583-5582-B197-8D07DEF37636"><cmd/>

<info>Free your resources as necessary. </info>

</step>

</steps>

</taskbody><related-links>

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XML DOM</linktext></link>