Eclipse Community Forums: Epsilon » Navigating a PlainXmlModel

Help

Home

Home » Modeling » Epsilon » Navigating a PlainXmlModel

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator

Navigating a PlainXmlModel [message #1784863]

Wed, 04 April 2018 21:27

Sina Madani

Messages: 160
Registered: November 2015
Location: York, UK

Senior Member

Hi,

I'm trying to query the values of a minimal XML model. The structure is:

<a>
	<b x="1">
	</b>
	<b x="2">
	</b>
	<c x="1">
	</c>
	<c x="2">
	</c>
</a>

However I can't seem to find any documentation regarding how one would go about accessing attributes and elements. The only workaround I've found is the following, for example trying to get attribute "x" of element "b" (of type t_b) is:

b.getAttributes().getNamedItem("x").getNodeValue()

Probably due to the way reflection works, this attempts to call the methods directly on the implementing instance (in this case, it's com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.ElementImpl.getAttributes()) rather than on the interface, leading to warnings about illegal reflective access (from Java 9 onwards).

I was wondering if there's some obvious way that I've missed? Looking at the source for PlainXmlModel, I don't see any obvious notation.

Thanks,
Sina

Report message to a moderator

Re: Navigating a PlainXmlModel [message #1784864 is a reply to message #1784863]

Wed, 04 April 2018 21:32

Dimitris Kolovos

Messages: 2163
Registered: July 2009
Location: York, UK

Senior Member

Hi Sina,

b.a_x should do the trick as per [1].

Cheers,
Dimitris

[1] https://www.eclipse.org/epsilon/doc/articles/plain-xml/

Report message to a moderator

Re: Navigating a PlainXmlModel [message #1784865 is a reply to message #1784863]

Wed, 04 April 2018 21:34

Ran Wei

Messages: 119
Registered: September 2012
Location: York, UK

Senior Member

Hi,

You prefix the attribute name with keywords + underscore, for example, if the attribute is supposed to be integer you do
b.i_x to retrive its value
Of course if I understood your question correctly.

There are some examples on the Epsilon website, you can refer to [1].

Cheers,
Will

[1]. https://www.eclipse.org/epsilon/doc/articles/plain-xml/

Research Associate
Department of Computer Science
University of York

Report message to a moderator