Re: Selecting multiple fields, out of order, in a single Java XPath expression

[Martin Honnen]

A. W. Dunstan wrote:

> <top>
>   <date>
>     <year>2008</year>
>     <month>07</month>
>     <day>18</day>
>   <date>
> </top>
>
> I'd like to do something like this (in Java):
>
>   String date = anXPathObject.evaluate("/top/date/[day,month,year]", doc);
>
> and wind up with date having a value of "18072008".  The "[day,month,year]"
> (or whatever the syntax is) would tell XPath 'I
> want /top/date/day, /top/date/month and /top/date/year extracted and
> concatenated'.  

The XPath expression is
  concat(/top/date/day, /top/date/month, /top/date/year)

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