Re: element census tool?

From: Philip Fearon <pgfearo@googlemail.com>
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 07:42:03 +0000

Play the video

Or, if you want interactive analysis ( < 10,000 files) from within a GUI, you could use the following technique with the SketchPath tool:

1. Drag the top-directory of you document collection into the GUI

2. Copy the following expression (and a variation for attribute names) into the XPath 2.0 editor and then press 'save' to add it to the saved expression list:

distinct-values(for $n in //* return local-name($n))

3. Browse the collection, represented as a flattened file list view (or use the directory tree view)

4. Each time you select a new document, the saved expression is re-evaluated, and the number of distinct names is shown in a grid that lists all saved expressions and their resolved value/sequence-length for the current document

5. To expand this to show the full and sortable list of element names, you would then double-click on the saved expression.

6. For a survery, a common technique also, is to use the dual-viewer, so you 'freeze' a file in one view whilst browsing the remaining files with the other for immediate comparison against a 'standard', differences in the XPath results between the two are highlighted

7. You could expand on the above by using the 'except' XPath operator to filter out element names from a sequence of names common to all docbook documents - In SketchPath, a previously saved expression can be used as a variable within a subsequent one.

Phil Fearon

http://qutoric.com/

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com> wrote:

I know I could write this myself, but suspect someone else has already done a better job of it - and I just don't know the right Google keywords to summon it.

I'm looking for a tool that I can feed an XML document, and it will tell me which element names were used in the document.

Attributes used on those elements would be a bonus, as would a frequency count for usage, but mostly I'm just trying to survey a collection of (DocBook) documents quickly.

All suggestions welcome.

--
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/

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