Getting an attribute value

[Gabriella Turek]

As part of my testing, I want to verify that I edited the attribute value correctly.

With the following 2 lines of code I identify correctly the tags my the attribute appears in
        FastFilter ff1 = JOOX.tag("Climate");
        Match x1 = JOOX.$(updated).find(ff1);

The tags in question being:
[<Climate Altitude_m="0" AnnualPET="Use default" AnnualPET_mm="0" Latitude_deg="0" MeanAnnualRainfall_mm="1800" MeanAnnualTemp_C="0" RainfallSeasonalVariation="Use default" SeasonalPETVariation="Use default">
                                <ListOfSnowFall/>
                            </Climate>,
<Climate MeanAnnualRainfall_mm="1800">
                                <ListOfSnowFall/>
                            </Climate>]

But how do I get the value of the attribute? I've tried different approaches including a simple JQuery like
String str = JOOX.$("Climate").attr("MeanAnnualRainFall_mm");
But I keep getting an empty string back instead of "1800"

[Lukas Eder]

Hello Gabriella,

There are some subtle differences between jQuery and jOOX. Remember
that jQuery is executed in the context of an HTML DOM, which is
globally available. Hence, in jQuery, $("Climate") is actually a
short-cut for writing $(document).find("Climate").

jOOX cannot statically access any "global" DOM document, hence
$("Climate") has a different semantics, it creates a new document with
a <Climate/> root element in it.

What you want to do is write something along the lines of:

String str = $(updated).find("Climate").attr("MeanAnualRainFall_mm");

Cheers
Lukas

[Lukas Eder]

I actually had a typo in my attribute name:

// I wrote:
String str = $(updated).find("Climate").attr("MeanAnualRainFall_mm");

// Instead of
String str = $(updated).find("Climate").attr("MeanAnnualRainFall_mm");

Anyways, can you provide me with a reproducible test case? i.e. a
sample XML file, parsed and passed to jOOX, to illustrate how this
isn't working for you?

Cheers
Lukas

2012/12/11 Gabriella Turek <tet...@gmail.com>:
> Hi Lucas, that is one of the things that I tried as well, but I keep getting
> a null string back.
> Gaby
>