Searching for matching attribute values. Xpath the best way?

[russurquhart1]

Hi,

I think i have a little info that can be dangerous.

I am trying to find if there are any Pointer attribute values, for any element, that do NOT have a matching Target attribute value, for any given element. I currently have the following:

ActiveDocument.FormattingUpdating = false;
          var href_nodelist = ActiveDocument.getNodesByXpath(“//*[@Pointer]”); 
          var nodecount = href_nodelist.length;
          Application.Alert(“href count is ” + nodecount);
                   
          for (i=0; i                  var item = href_nodelist.item(i);
                  var item_val = item.getAttribute(“Pointer”);
                  Application.Alert(“node is: ” + item_val);
                  var target_nodelist = ActiveDocument.getNodesByXpath(“//*[@Target=item_val]”);
                  Application.Alert(“length is: ” + target_nodelist.length);
                  if (target_nodelist.length == 0)
                  {
                  Application.Alert(“Target not found in this document: ” + i + ” – ” + item_val);
                  }
            }
          ActiveDocument.FormattingUpdating = true;

The target_nodelist.length never seems to get beyond 0, is the preceeding xpath command not valid?

Thanks for any help!

Russ

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[Derek Read]

I think you want to find all elements with an attribute called Target that have the value set in the item_val variable, right? If that's right then you probably want to replace this line:

var target_nodelist = ActiveDocument.getNodesByXpath("//*[@Target=item_val]");

…with something like this:

var target_attr_xpath = '//*[@Target="' + item_val +'"]';
var target_nodelist = ActiveDocument.getNodesByXpath(target_attr_xpath);

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[russurquhart1]

Ah!  Thanks! That did the trick!

Russ

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