Thursday, October 25, 2007 8:06 PM
I recently found myself in a bind trying to get a useful XPath function for the xpath() function (BizTalk developers, you know what I'm talking about) that would help me logically identify the existence of an element in a schema instance (otherwise known as an Xml document). The documentation (or at least my hard-copy version does?) states:
"For more information on the xpath function, see third-party documentation on the XML Path Language (XPath)."
So, I fired up my favorite search engine and did a quick search for some quick & dirty documentation. Lo and behold, I found what I was looking for on a site called refcards.com had one that works quite nicely. Not a big fan of the site overall - all links go to Google, which seems to pay them more than give you any meaningful information - but otherwise, the reference PDF provided makes for great hard-copy to paper your cubicle with. I was back to logic testing for empty Xml nodes in no time!
More on what I was building another time.