Search xml document by example

Hi.
I'd like to create a XML documents search engine. So id like to find documents that contain elements and data like in request XML document. F.E.
there are 3 documents in the database
#1
<root>
<firstname>AAA</firstname>
<lastname>BBB</lastname>
<nickname>CCC</nickname>
</root>
#2
<root>
<firstname>AAA</firstname>
<lastname>DDD</lastname>
<nickname>EEE</nickname>
</root>
#3
<root>
<firstname>FFF</firstname>
<lastname>BBB</lastname>
<nickname>GGG</nickname>
</root>
and a request xml like
#1
<root>
<firstname>AAA</firstname>
</root>
#2
<root>
<lastname>BBB</lastname>
</root>
So, id like to get #1 and #2 documents after request #1 and #1 and #3 after request #2. If there is no <someelement> in request this mean that it's value may be ANY, and if it's empty - this element in document must be empty too.
So, the question is:
Is there any simple query for this or I should generate dynamic XPath query for each request?
Thanks.

there are different ways to parse through a xml file. you can use a SAXParser for example.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/javax/xml/parsers/SAXParser.html
you can find heaps of examples for that...
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Thanks,
Glen

If you want to output your XML to a file, say, then yes the Transformer is the way to do it now. Don't know why they did that, it's far from intuitively obvious.

Embedding XSL in XML document

Hi
I am new to this particular forum. I had some query regarding embedding XSL .
Can we embedd the XSL stylesheet in the XML document itself.
I searched this forum and got some similar queries but the output isn't working. Can anyone put a working example.
I have got the following XSL stylesheet:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<body>
<table border="1" width="100%" cellpadding="1">
<tr bgcolor="#FFFF99">
<th style="font-family:arial unicode ms;font-size:100%" align="center">Serial number </th>
<th style="font-family:arial unicode ms;font-size:100%" align="center">Site number </th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="Master/RECORD">
<xsl:if test="SR_NO > 0">
<tr>
<td style="font-family:arial unicode ms;font-size:80%" align="right"><xsl:value-of select="SR_NO"/></td>
<td style="font-family:arial unicode ms;font-size:80%" align="right"><xsl:value-of select="ACR_SNO"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
The XML document is as below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="archivingmaster.xsl"?>
<Master>
<RECORD>
<SR_NO>1</SR_NO>
<ACRSNO>1</ACR_SNO>
</RECORD>
<RECORD>
<SR_NO>2</SR_NO>
<ACRSNO>2</ACR_SNO>
</RECORD>
</Master>
Thanks in advance
Ameya.

I have already gone through that link and searched for this on the net. But it doesn't seem to work on my Mozilla Firefox browser.
Can anybody put a working example if possible.
Thanks
Ameya.

UTL_DBWS, XML Document as a parameter

I'm struggling with using a fully formed xml document as a parameter to a web service.
Using this code I'm able to connect to the web service and sans the arg1 argument everything works.
When I as in the code below use xmltype.toStringValue() or xmltype.toClobValue() charachters like < and > is replaced with the html encoded version (< and >) which does'nt work very well with the recieving web service.
All three parameters is defined as string on the recieving web service.
I've been searching this forum and using google, but can't find any examples doing something like this.
Any help or pointers appreciated.
procedure forwardToQueue is
svc_ sys.utl_dbws.service;
call_ sys.utl_dbws.call;
svc_qname sys.utl_dbws.qname;
response sys.xmltype;
request sys.xmltype;
utMelding sys.xmltype;
t1 sys.xmltype;
t2 sys.xmltype;
doc xmldom.DomDocument;
fListe xmldom.DOMNodeList;
tmpL xmldom.DOMNodeList;
fElement xmldom.domNode;
tmp xmldom.domNode;
meldingId strliten;
arg0_node xmldom.domnode;
arg0_elmt xmldom.domelement;
arg0_text xmldom.domtext;
arg1_node xmldom.domnode;
arg1_elmt xmldom.domelement;
arg1_text xmldom.domtext;
arg2_node xmldom.domnode;
arg2_elmt xmldom.domelement;
arg2_text xmldom.domtext;
child_doc xmldom.domdocument;
main_node xmldom.domnode;
root_node xmldom.domnode;
root_elmt xmldom.domelement;
x sys.xmltype;
c varchar2(32000);
bs_chr strmax;
l_service sys.UTL_DBWS.service;
l_call sys.UTL_DBWS.call;
l_result ANYDATA;
l_wsdl_url strmax := 'http://salah-test.sismo.local:8080/SIMSEJB/SIMSFacadeBean?wsdl';
l_namespace strmax := 'http://salah-test.sismo.local:8080/SIMSEJB/SIMSFacadeBean';
l_service_qname sys.utl_dbws.qname;
begin
procName := 'hentQueue';
pl('*************** '||procName||' ***************');
svc_qname := sys.utl_dbws.to_qname(null, 'SIMSFacadeBeanService');
svc_ := sys.utl_dbws.create_service(svc_qname);
call_ := sys.utl_dbws.create_call(svc_);
sys.utl_dbws.set_target_endpoint_address(call_, 'http://salah-test.sismo.local:8080/SIMSEJB/SIMSFacadeBean');
sys.utl_dbws.set_property(call_, 'SOAPACTION_USE', 'TRUE');
sys.utl_dbws.set_property(call_, 'SOAPACTION_URI', 'sendMessage');
sys.utl_dbws.set_property(call_, 'OPERATION_STYLE', 'document');
x := genererSvar;
doc := xmldom.newDOMDocument;
main_node := xmldom.makeNode(doc);
root_elmt := xmldom.createelement(doc, 'q0:sendMessage');
xmldom.setattribute(root_elmt, 'xmlns:q0', 'si.sims.intern.service');
root_node := xmldom.appendChild(main_node, xmldom.makeNode(root_elmt));
-- Adding arg 0 as a string
arg0_elmt := xmldom.createelement(doc, 'arg0');
arg0_node := xmldom.appendchild(root_node, xmldom.makenode(arg0_elmt));
arg0_text := xmldom.createtextnode(doc, '2');
arg0_node := xmldom.appendchild(arg0_node, xmldom.makenode(arg0_text));
-- Adding arg 1 as a string
arg1_elmt := xmldom.createelement(doc, 'arg1');
arg1_node := xmldom.appendchild(root_node, xmldom.makenode(arg1_elmt));
arg1_text := xmldom.createtextnode(doc, x.getClobVal());
arg1_node := xmldom.appendchild(arg1_node, xmldom.makenode(arg1_text));
-- Adding arg 2 as a string
arg2_elmt := xmldom.createelement(doc, 'arg2');
arg2_node := xmldom.appendchild(root_node, xmldom.makenode(arg2_elmt));
arg2_text := xmldom.createtextnode(doc, 'false');
arg2_node := xmldom.appendchild(arg2_node, xmldom.makenode(arg2_text));
request := xmldom.getxmltype(doc);
pl('Request:');
pl(request.getStringVal());
response := sys.utl_dbws.invoke(call_, request);
pl('Showing respons');
pl(response.getStringVal());
doc := DBMS_XMLDOM.newDomDocument(response);
sys.utl_dbws.release_call(call_);
sys.utl_dbws.release_service(svc_);
end forwardToQueue;

Is the Document well defined via schema? You might be able to use the autotype
ant task to generate a serializer.
Otherwise, serialize the document to a string, then wrap it in <[CDATA[...]]>
on the return. The calling app will need to understand that the string is xml,
and then desrailize it manually.
Mike
"Surya" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
I have web service which has to retuen an XML document (org.w3c.dom.Document)
as
a paramter. Since this is not a supported data type for in-out paramaters,
I will
have to serialize and write my own converter. What is the best solution?
Is there
any class/library that can convert the document into String which I can
return
as a parameter and again get create a XML document in the client side.
Thanks -Surya

Storing and searching XML in CLOBs

Speaking to an oracle employee at the Oracle booth at JavaOne
recently. They suggested I store XML in CLOBs
and use the DOM or SAX to reparse the XML later as needed.
I agreed that this was the best solution for my problem
(which was how to manage many different XML documents using many
different DTDs in a document management system)
The big problem was searching this document repository
to locate relevant information.
This is where Intermedia seemed ideal (still does).
It would be nice to see an example of setting this up using
Intermedia in Oracle 8i, demonstrating how to define the
XML_SECTION_GROUP and where to use a ZONE as opposed to a FIELD
etc.
Anybody care to take a shot at this ????
For example:
How would I define Intermedia parameters
so that I would be able to search my CLOB
column for records that had the <keyword>
"aorta" and "damage" in the <caption>
using the following
XML (DTD implied)
<image filename="OurImageName.gif">
<fname>WellKnownFileName.gif</fname>
<keyword>echocardiogram</keyword>
<keyword>aorta</keyword>
<caption>This is an image of the vessel damage</caption>
</image>
Thanks
Thomas Bennett
null

Eric (guest) wrote:
: You can't do XML structure-based searches with intermedia. You
: can search for text within a given element, but nothing more
: complicated than that.
The example he gave involves exactly that -- searching for
text within XML elements. interMedia can do this.
: It also does not do attributes.
Upcoming 8.1.6 version allows searching within
attribute text. That's something like:
dog within book@author
We're working on attribute value sensitive search,
more like:
dog within book[@author = "Eric"]
: Thomas Bennett (guest) wrote:
: : How would I define Intermedia parameters
: : so that I would be able to search my CLOB
: : column for records that had the <keyword>
: : "aorta" and "damage" in the <caption>
: : using the following
: : XML (DTD implied)
: : <image filename="OurImageName.gif">
: : <fname>WellKnownFileName.gif</fname>
: : <keyword>echocardiogram</keyword>
: : <keyword>aorta</keyword>
: : <caption>This is an image of the vessel damage</caption>
: : </image>
begin
ctx_ddl.create_section_group('mygrp','basic_section_group');
ctx_ddl.add_field_section('mygrp','keyword','keyword');
ctx_ddl.add_field_section('mygrp','caption','caption');
end;
create index myidx on mytab(mytxtcolumn)
indextype is ctxsys.context
parameters ('section group mygrp');
select * from mytab
where contains(mytxtcolumn, 'aorta within keyword')>0;
options:
* use XML section group instead of basic section group
if your tags have attributes or you need case-sensitive
tag detection
* use zone sections instead of field sections if your
sections overlap, or if you need to distinguish
between instances. For instance, keywords. If keywords
is a field section, then
(aorta and echocardiogram) within keywords
finds the document. if it is a zone section, then it
doesn't, because they are not in the SAME instance of
keywords.
null

XPATH in a XML Document

Hi guys, I need again your help.
I have many xml documents and I need create a class that "search" data at this xml documents. What I can do this!?!?
For example, I wanna get the Paul ages in the age.xml document!!!!! I wanna create a method like this:
SearchXmlfile search = new SearchXmlFile();
String result = search.get("/person@age[person@attribute = 'paul']"); //I pass the xpath like parameter
Someone know What I can do this?!!?
Just another question. When I create a transformer I set the Source and Result "Objects" (SAX, DOM or Stream). And where i set the xsl file?!!? I am reading the jwsdp tutorial and I don't understand where I configure the xsl file transformer to the transformer object!!!!
Thanks Again.
Giscard.

1. For selecting nodes with an XPath expression parse with the JDom parser and select nodes with the XPath class.
http://www.jdom.org/
2. Set the stylesheet in the Transformer.
           DocumentBuilderFactory factory =
            DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
            DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
           Document document = builder.parse(new File("c:/input.xml"));
            TransformerFactory tFactory =
                TransformerFactory.newInstance();
            StreamSource stylesource = new StreamSource(stylesheet);//Set the Stylesheet
            Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer(stylesource);
            DOMSource source = new DOMSource(document);
            StreamResult result = new StreamResult(System.out);
            transformer.transform(source, result);

Parse XML document which have xlink/xpointer inside

dear friends,
There are lots of topic talking about parse xml, validating xml with schema and so on, but no one or any book talking about parsing xml document which can parse document with link inside.
According to Mr Meggison at http://www.megginson.com/Background/
we can do it, but he is not expert with this thing.
For example I have 3 XML document. My main XML document, let named it A.XML have XPointer inside and this element pointing to B.XML and C.XML using xpointer. how to parse A.XML and in the same time my SAX recognized this XPointer and parse also element inside B.XML and C.XML.
I am really grateull for any helpful information from you.
best regards

I think you need to look for a SAX or DOM parser that undestands XPointers and knows how to follow them to additional content.
I have used XSLT and specified external documents to it. It knows how to read a document and in effect make a nodeset which can be searched with the XPath capabilities of XSLT.
It sounds like you wnat an <include file="xxx"/> capability and have the parser stop reading the current file, and start reading the second file.
That works in Schemas, but I'm unaware of any way to do it with SAX or DOM in one pass.
It would not be too hard to process the first file, say with DOM.
After the Document is built, go find the <include> elements, read get the attribute needed, build a new Document and merge it into the original Document in place of the <include> element.
Is this more what you want to do?
Dave Patterson

Urgent help in searching XML docs

Hi All,
I have started using JDOM and created a XML document after reading the contents from a text file. Now i need to implement a search facility on this XML document. The structure of my XML document is given bellow
<Company ID="C1">
<Name>aa</Name>
<Address>qq</Address>
<Contact_Person>ww</Contact_Person>
<Designation>ee</Designation>
<Phone>123</Phone>
<Fax>456</Fax>
<EMail>acd</EMail>
<Website>axc</Website>
<Business_Type>hfs</Business_Type>
<Operation_Areas>khgd</Operation_Areas>
<Other_Info>csbdcks</Other_Info>
</Company>There are similar company nodes having information about different companies.
The search criteria can be based on any one node e.g search companies by <Location> or <Business_Type> etc. I am planning to use XSL and pass the search parameters. Is the approach right?? Could someone guide me with some code examples .
Thanks in advance..
Nilotpal

If you want to search information in a JDom object, you can use XPath with Jaxen: http://www.jaxen.org/
I never used Jaxen, so I can't help you.
But with XPath you can implement many search facilities.

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