Using XPATH to get multiple values from the same node name

[truzicki]

Good morning.   I'm successfully using XPATH to grab a single value from a node and place it into a scratchpad variable.   However, when I try the same approach to getting multiple values, I'm getting an undefined value returned.   I've read through the wiki, John Andersen's blog, and even tutorials online about XPATH, but I'm still stumped.   Here's an example of what I'm trying to do:

Using the following example XML,

<soap:Envelope >

    <soap:Body>

          <BunchOfWordsResponse >

                <BunchOfWordsResult>

                      <string>dog</string>

                      <string>cat</string>

                      <string>bird</string>

                      <string>fish</string>

                      <string>jupiter</string>

                      <string>putty</string>

                      <string>phone</string>

                </BunchOfWordsResult>

          </BunchOfWordsResponse>

    </soap:Body>

</soap:Envelope>

I'd like to get a string that contains all the words -- dog, cat, bird, etc.   If I use something like [var myExampleString = responseXML.getNodeText('//string');], it comes back as undefined.   Can anyone offer any suggestions?

Thank you!

-Tim Ruzicki.

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Thanks Tim

Regards

Ankur

[Ankur Bawiskar · Accepted solution]

Hi Tim,

Not sure whether you are still facing same or similar type of issue for parsing and fetching values for xml tags which are repeated under a parent tag.

Here is the script which returns all the values under <string> tag. You can then store them into an array and do whatever processing you need to.

var xmlString = the xml string , store it in this variable

var k=0;

var arr=[];

var xmldoc = new XMLDocument(xmlString);

var noParamNode = xmldoc.getNodes("//BunchOfWordsResponse/BunchOfWordsResult/*").getLength();

for(var k=1; k<noParamNode+1; k++){

var value = xmldoc.getNodeText("//string["+k+"]");

gs.print('Individual value for string tag is::'+value);

arr.push(value.toString());

}

gs.print('Array is::'+arr);

}

As seen in the screenshot below, you can I have printed the individual values for string tag and an array as well containing these values.

Mark my reply as Correct and also hit Like and Helpful if you find my response worthy.

Thanks

Ankur

[richam]

Thanks Ankur for the response. Because I had to do it quickly and did had much time to explore, I tried regular expression to fetch the node value.

Thanks,

Richa