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tadudek
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5 years ago

GroovyUtils XMLHolder throwing Xpath syntax error when XML node value contains escaped character.

GroovyUtils throwing error when XML node value contains escaped characters.    In my script, I'm accessing a node that contains the description of an error. That node when read by my XMLHolder thro...
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nmrao
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5 years ago
Can you please show the sample data? Does it has string literal "\n"?
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    tadudek
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    5 years ago

    Here's the output from the log: 

     

    Tue Mar 31 15:45:21 MDT 2020: INFO: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<errorDescription xmlns:p="http://www.ournamespace.com">Invalid part number</errorDescription>

    It appears to be a non-printable char. I also just edited the namespace, as not put publish it on the forum. 

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        tadudek
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        5 years ago

        nmrao 

         

        I don't control the values being passed back in this response. So, I'm trying to grab the value (which comes out as a string if I use the holder.getNodeValue(xpath). That breaks, but I'm trying to get it into an excel file so that as I'm going through my response, if one of these items in my xml list has an error, I transcribe that to the file. 

         

        To get around it, it appears that I may be able to do something like this: 

        	log.info holder.getDomNode(err).toString()

        But, it's not exactly what I want. 

         

        Ideally, I just want pull what's there, regardless printable/non-printable chars. So, if I could just CDATA the content regardless of what's there, but the problem is, is that I can't get to it.