Allow search paths for XML parse

[markp201]

To navigate through XML document you need several parse tools to drill down to an element because you can only use element names

It would be nice if you case use an xml path (xpath) because of the rich syntax.

With xpath, we could specify ship_to/address/city or bill_to/address/city

[JohnJPS]

Good idea.  A workaround for the time being is to use the R tool... this worked for me on some dummy data:

library(XML)

rawData <- read.Alteryx("#1", mode="data.frame")
xmlData <- xmlParse(rawData[1,1],asText=T)

billTo <- xmlToDataFrame(getNodeSet(xmlData,"//bill_to//address"))
shipTo <- xmlToDataFrame(getNodeSet(xmlData,"//ship_to//address"))
addrData <- rbind(billTo,shipTo)

write.Alteryx(addrData, 1)

[markp201]

Neat idea and I have a good reason to ramp up with R.  Thanks

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