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fenwickr
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9 years ago
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Updating Second Child Element

Below is the Code I am using to setup 2 child nodes Selection of Selections- I need to updated the second child node/Element with a New ID and order Number - I have tried to use XmlUtils.getChildElem...
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    fenwickr
    9 years ago

    Found the answer put in [] after the element and the number of the node/element you are after 

    So parentNode = reqHolder.getDomNode("//Selection") will become parentNode = reqHolder.getDomNode("//Selection[1]") to update the first element/Node and ("//Selection[2]") for the second

     

    parentNode = reqHolder.getDomNode("//Selection[1]")
    parentNode.setAttribute("id", '${#Project#WRunner1}')
    parentNode.setAttribute("order", "1")
    reqHolder.updateProperty()

     

    parentNode = reqHolder.getDomNode("//Selection[2]")
    parentNode.setAttribute("id", '${#Project#WRunner2}')
    parentNode.setAttribute("order", "2")
    reqHolder.updateProperty()

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rlong98
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Hi - I'm trying to advance my XML learning... curious what you used this code in?  Is this doing some sort of nextVal?

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fenwickr
Occasional Contributor
9 years ago

Hi Rlong98 

It is to setup my requests via a script, as my WSDL set sometime removes the elements when I update them when changes are made to this area, so this way I can make sure they are always the same after an update and use the same values and I will be able to use one request not 80 requests for a smoke test 

 

It can also be used for Xquery when you have an element with the same name in a response

 

Found this is a good site to help out 

http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/xpath_examples.asp