Archive for the ‘XPath’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/23
A while ago, I needed to investigate reboot events on some Windows 10 systems. I wanted to use the console instead of the eventvwr GUI Event Viewer.
There is a tool for that called wevtutil which – like eventvwr – uses XPath query parameters and produces XML output.
Postprocessing XML can be a thing, but since .NET has great XML support, you can use PowerShell for that (which for me often is way easier than going the XSLT route, for instance because Windows lacks built-in console XSLT tooling).
Based on the help and the below links, my query command then on these machines turned out to be this: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/22
Somehow this post missed the schedule and for a long time I forgot to properly checked for “missed schedule” posts.
Back in 2021, suddenly systems with speedtest-cli threw a [Wayback/Archive] ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ” by tzwickl · Pull Request #768 · sivel/speedtest-cli after accessing the speedtest.net servers.
Around 7-8 April, 2021 the speedtest.net/speedtest-config.php XML configuration suddenly had changed the value for the XPath expression /settings/server-config/@ignoreids from being a list of integers into empty, see the archived files below.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/20
As I promised a few months back in Bookmarklets for Archive.is and the WayBack Machine to go to the original page, moar JavaScript fiddling, this time with XPath based bookmarklets to navigate from Archive.is pages to Saved From, Redirected from, Via and Original pages.
An alternative would be using XPath as the additional fields are always structured in a table like the html below (taking complex pages like https://archive.ph/5iVVH and https://archive.ph/2015.11.14-044109/http://www.example.org/ as an example).
I got triggered to using XPath from this answer from [Wayback/Archive] gdyrrahitis at [Wayback/Archive] Javascript .querySelector find by innerTEXT – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] passwd for asking):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/11
Schema Central, by [WayBack] Datypic, Inc. (Priscilla Walmsley) is to golden that I quote the whole index page below.
The index refers to XML vocabularies. Each vocabulary page links the corresponding XSD pages. Each XSD page lists documentation, elements, etc. Each element page then documents the element, shows where it is referenced from.
Welcome to Schema Central, an interactive tool to traverse and search XML schemas. Please choose your XML vocabulary of interest to get started. Don’t see the XML vocabulary you use? Ask us to add it.
Core XML Technologies
Presentation-Oriented Standards
Office/Narrative Document Standards
Business Document Standards
NIEM-related Standards
Miscellaneous
Web Services Technologies
Security-Related Technologies
[WayBack]
If I ever need a long term XML/XSD/XSLT/XQuery hire, this is the “about” information I need:
Datypic provides consulting services and training, specializing in XML, content management and SOA/Web Services architecture and development. We are experts in XML-related technologies such as XML Schema, XSLT and XQuery, and have extensive experience with software development and implementation.
We participate in consulting projects ranging from one day to many months, anywhere in the world. We can arrange to work remotely or at your site, whichever you prefer.
For more information, please read about our services or our company, or contact us as pwalmsley@datypic.com.
Recent news from Priscilla Walmsley
- I recently updated my book XQuery to match the final XQuery 3.1 recommendation. You can read more about it or order it from O’Reilly or Amazon.
- I recently taught a course at the XML Summer School on Refactoring XSLT. Slides are available as a PDF.
- More information about my recent books and articles is available on this site.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/29
XML processing never gets easy. So here are some links that helped me:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/12
A while ago, I heard about xmllint, a program that can parse and query xml from the command-line.
Later, I discovered it can also parse html, can recover from xml/html errors and has an interactive shell that has a lot of commands (see table below) to navigate through the loaded command.
The relevant command-line options:
--recover
--html
--shell
Note that --recover will output failing input to stderr. You can ignore that using 2> /dev/null
Some good examples of usage are here:
The table of shell commands:
Shell
xmllint offers an interactive shell mode invoked with the –shell command. Available commands in shell mode include:
| Command |
Parameter |
Description |
| base |
|
display XML base of the node |
| bye |
|
leave shell |
| cat |
node |
Display node if given or current node. |
| cd |
path |
Change the current node to path (if given and unique) or root if no argument given. |
| dir |
path |
Dumps information about the node (namespace, attributes, content). |
| du |
path |
Show the structure of the subtree under path or the current node. |
| exit |
|
Leave the shell. |
| help |
|
Show this help. |
| free |
|
Display memory usage. |
| load |
name |
Load a new document with the given name. |
| ls |
path |
List contents of path (if given) or the current directory. |
| pwd |
|
Display the path to the current node. |
| quit |
|
Leave the shell. |
| save |
name |
Saves the current document to name if given or to the original name. |
| validate |
|
Check the document for error. |
| write |
name |
Write the current node to the given filename. |
–jeroen
via xmllint.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/10/16
A big part of the cloud is not about storage, it is about on-line tools that run in your web-browser so you do not have to install them locally.
Quite a bit of my XML work can be done with on-line tools like these:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/24
In the previous post, you saw some XPath to find the ProviderManifestToken attribute in an .edmx file.
Writing XPath queries can be quite consuming, so it is nice of you can test it somewhere on-line.
Out of the on-line XPath testers, these two worked best:
Both of them support namespaces, including these XPath functions: local-name and namespace-uri.
These failed:
If you have more on-line tools that work: please let me know!
Edit (20120524T0930):
Danny Thorpe tweeted an interesting comment:
@jpluimers If you’re compiling XPath support, make note of whether it’s XPATH 1.0 or 2.0. I think .NET only implements XPATH 1.0
Indeed, .NET only supports XPath 1.0, and worse, .NET 4 introduced a couple of issues with XSLT (see XPath and XSLT 2.0 for .NET? – Stack Overflow).
Luckily there are some goot XPath 2.0 libraries for .NET (see XPath 2.0 Libraries for .Net – Stack Overflow).
–jeroen
via: XPath tools on not-another-blog
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