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 Given an xpath
expression that points into a document, can anyone suggest a clever way
to extract an arbitrary chunk of the document immediately before and
after that point? Say, 40 characters before and after?
Here's the use case:
we have an
error report that is generated as part of an XSLT batch transformation
process. The error message include the xpath that describes
the element that caused the problem; e.g.,
/ART[1]/BM[1]/BIBL[1]/BIB[5]/NOTE[1]/P[1]. The users of the report
have requested that we add a bit of context to help them assess the
errors without having to open every single file...a preview snippet as it
were.
It doesn't have to
be a pure XML solution nor does it have to be extremely efficient in processor
time. These are not large documents and it would be okay to reread the
files as part of the error report generation.
Thanks in advance
for any suggestions as to ways to tackle this problem.
Evan Owens
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