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clay's avatar
clay
Contributor
6 years ago

XMLCheckpoints lack the flexibility we need. Is XPath available in Desktop (not Web!)?

We have a Desktop application system that passes XML messages between components.  Thus far, we have found the XMLCheckpoint mechanism to be useful some of the time, but many times it is not.  Is there an XPath capability for Desktop that is accessible through JavaScript?

  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    Esteemed Contributor

    You could also instantiate the MSXML.DOMDocument object built into Windows and build your own parser/comparison.  That's what I would recommend doing.

    • clay's avatar
      clay
      Contributor

      Thank you, tristaanogre.  I was starting to look at that as an option.  Yours and Tanya's replies should get me started.

    • clay's avatar
      clay
      Contributor

      Thanks, Tanya.  This should suffice for what we are doing.  I wonder if it would be possible to incorporate XPath queries directly into XMLCheckpoints?  That would be a good thing :-)