xMII and recursion/DFS implementation?

[Former Member]

Just a question for everyone...

is it possible to implement a depth first search algorithm in xMII..? The reason is to process an XML document which represents data in a tree format.

eg

<Hierarchy>

<Location/>

<Location/>

<Location/>

</Hierarchy>

(think of it as how windows explorer shows its folder listing... its a tree view and you can see subfolders as child nodes..)

and convert it to an xMII XML doc:

Hierarchy Location1 Location2 Location3

format...ie. I wanted to traverse the tree and flatten it into a table format.

ahh did this make sense?

I've been playing around with my XPath and Repeater blocks but I'm not making much headway.. Has anyone done something similar?

[Former Member]

I am not sure on DFS but for a start lets assume you have an xml loader action to get the content of your xml file then to look inside each of the location(s) a correct XPath expression could be

XmlLoader_0.XmlContent{/Hierarchy/Location[1]}.

You can repeat it for Location[2] and so on.

or better still just repeat on /Hierarchy/Location. But I guess the problem would be if a particular <Location> have further child nodes and the child have further children and so on..

If you could post a sample xml that you are working on,it'll help.