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Bug 365840

Summary:	@XmlPath support for XPath Axes and/or Parent
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Michael Gallagher <michael.gallagher>
Component:	Eclipselink	Assignee:	Project Inbox <eclipselink.oxm-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	blaise.doughan, christopher.f.kohle, mrdev24, taga.sincang, terencekent, william.van.woensel
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8404134/eclipselink-moxy-xmlpath-support-for-axes-parent
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Description Michael Gallagher

2011-12-07 04:14:07 EST

For the following XML:

<root>
   <header>a</header>
   <tag>1</tag>
   <tag>2</tag>
   <tag>3</tag>
</root>

Assuming the context node is /root/tag

Examples of XPaths currently not supported:

../header/text()
parent::*/header/text()


Related Stackoverflow question:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8404134/eclipselink-moxy-xmlpath-support-for-axes-parent

Comment 1 Terence Kent

2012-07-14 18:35:22 EDT

I'm currently running into the same need trying to support a very complex schema (MISMO v3.0.CR.201005 if that's interesting).

Comment 2 Chris Kohle

2014-01-07 09:07:19 EST

Getting this issue resolved would also be very useful for us.

Comment 3 barangay sincang

2014-01-21 21:55:12 EST

same here. we badly need this feature. for now we will go back to the old school xpath parsing. our project is heavy with xml that we dont control the schema. thanks in advance.

Comment 4 mr dev

2016-02-04 20:20:22 EST

would be great to have 'parent' or 'child' checks.
ie: Customer/Field[child::Type/text()='Code']/Value/text()
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35214678/object-mapping-for-xml-moxy-alternative

Comment 5 William Van Woensel

2019-04-10 08:43:32 EDT

Yes, moxy is really great but it's quite unfortunate that axis are not supported - this turns it from a tool with quite some promise into something that's simply incomplete and doesn't support many real-world use cases.

Comment 6 Eclipse Webmaster

2022-06-09 10:05:13 EDT

The Eclipselink project has moved to Github: https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/eclipselink