Re: Improving what I extract for my xml tag

itt.@name gets you the attribute called "name".

On 4/2/2023 9:29 AM, James McMahon wrote:

> Hello. I am developing a Groovy script to work through all the tags in 
> an incoming t"ext representation of an xml file. I've read my xml from 
> the content of a NiFi flowfile, like so:
>
> session.read(ff, {inputStream ->
>           text = IOUtils.toString(inputStream, StandardCharsets.UTF_8)
>           def xml = new XmlParser().parseText(text)
>
> Later in my code I iterate through the xml to find all the values 
> associated with that tag. Ultimately I will build a unique sorted 
> list, tagValues.
>
> This is the code section that I have working so far:
>
> incomingTagsMap.each {
>                tagValues.clear()
> * xml.'**'.each { itt ->*
>                     log.warn('Found this tag: {}, with this value: 
> {}', itt.name <http://itt.name>(), itt.text())
>                     // If itt.text() is not on tagValues list, add it...
>                     if ( !tagValues.contains(itt.text()) ) { 
> tagValues.add(itt.text()) }
>                     log.warn('Length of tagValues list : {}', 
> tagValues.size())
>                }
>                log.warn('Tag {} has values: {}', ["$it.key", 
> tagValues.toListString()] as Object[])
>           }
>
> $it.key comes from an outer iterative loop.
>
> Where I am failing:
> I was hoping someone could help me tune this because in cases like 
> this....
>      <property name="User Group 
> Provider">file-user-group-provider</property>
> ...I only get *property *as the tag. What I really want to identify as 
> my tag is *User Group Provider*  .
>
> I've been unable to find any examples. Can anyone show me how to 
> accomplish this?
>
> Thanks very much in advance.
> Cheers,
> Jim
>