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Subject:    RE: No way to get at children of a bean in order, ignoring type
From:       "Radu Preotiuc-Pietro" <radup () bea ! com>
Date:       2008-04-24 20:47:49
Message-ID: BF6B6CA032BA0A429BD924F96765147DBF2F08 () repbex02 ! amer ! bea ! com
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XmlCursor is your friend here. It's really not that difficult and does
exactly what you want. I suggest you start with the sample at:
http://xmlbeans.apache.org/samples/OrderMatters.html (also included in
the XMLBeans distribution).

Radu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Burch [mailto:nick@torchbox.com] 
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 5:25 AM
> To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
> Subject: No way to get at children of a bean in order, ignoring type
> 
> Hi All
> 
> I have another issue for apache poi, from our nicely 
> generated beans from the ooxml xsd. We have one particular 
> bean which can have a number of children, including text, 
> hyperlinks and comments. The bean offers to give us an 
> ordered list of all the text, an ordered list of hyperlinks 
> etc. The snag is we can't figure out how to get all the 
> entries in the order they occur, irrespective of their type.
> 
> So, for this snippet of xml (scheme is at
> http://people.apache.org/~nick/wml.xsd):
> <w:p w:rsidR="00812E80" w:rsidRDefault="00812E80">
> <w:r>
> <w:t xml:space="preserve">We have a </w:t>
> </w:r>
> <w:hyperlink r:id="rId4" w:history="1">
> <w:r w:rsidRPr="00812E80">
> <w:rPr>
> <w:rStyle w:val="Hyperlink"/>
> </w:rPr>
> <w:t>hyperlink</w:t>
> </w:r>
> </w:hyperlink>
> <w:r>
> <w:t xml:space="preserve"> here, and </w:t>
> </w:r>
> </w:p>
> 
> We want to be able to get back the children in this order, 
> irrespective of their types. This will allow us to get the 
> textual data out in the order it occurs. For now, all we can 
> do is get all the r's, then all the hyperlinks, and our text 
> is then "We have a  here, and hyperlink", when we really 
> wanted "We have a hyperlink here, and "
> 
> Is there a trick to getting back all the children of the w:p, 
> in the order they occur, irrespective of the child's type?
> 
> Thanks
> Nick
> 
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