Yeah, there is a bug open I think , that notes the XmlFile uses the old MSXML.
K chose that old MSXML because it is distributed widely and makes for a
relatively safe dependency. It'd be nice to use a newer XML Parser but we
wouldn't be able to guarantee it would always be available.
I guess this is "least common denominator". Functional, but not ideal.
From: Shaun Wilde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 5:45 AM
To: Rob Mensching; Matthew Janulewicz; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] xmlfile and namespaces
Hi Rob
That tool helps a lot it seems that local-name() is an unknown method - I
assume it is using an old flavour of the XML DOM.
Shaun
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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:45:35 -0800
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] xmlfile and namespaces
I've had lots of issues with the XML Pattern stuff with namespaces. I
eventually wrote a little jscript that let me test my pattern until I finally
got it right. Then I dropped it in with variables and boom:
if (2 > WScript.Arguments.length)
{
WScript.Echo("Must specify both the file and the XSL Path to query.");
WScript.Quit(1);
}
WScript.Echo("Opening File: " + WScript.Arguments(0));
var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0");
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.load(WScript.Arguments(0));
if (0 != xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode)
{
var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError;
WScript.Echo("You have error " + myErr.reason);
}
else
{
WScript.Echo("Query: " + WScript.Arguments(1));
WScript.Echo();
// xmlDoc.setProperty("SelectionLanguage", "XPath");
currNode = xmlDoc.selectSingleNode(WScript.Arguments(1));
if (null == currNode)
{
WScript.Echo("Nothing found.");
}
else
{
WScript.Echo(currNode.text);
}
}
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shaun Wilde
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 1:20 AM
To: Matthew Janulewicz; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] xmlfile and namespaces
Sorry I should have said I am using WIX V2 (not 3) and
I have the correct escaping as you can see in my example.
Unfortunately web.config don't tend to have any namespaces
defined in them and I don't have issue with those files - its an xml
file that has namespaces defined within it that is causing grief.
Shaun
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Subject: RE: [WiX-users] xmlfile and namespaces
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:04:03 -0800
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
I'm not totally in tune with xml paths and whatnot, but I hacked through an
example and came up with this:
<util:XmlFile Id="RequireCorrectCaptchaCode" Action="setValue"
ElementPath="/configuration/appSettings/[EMAIL
PROTECTED]'RequireCorrectCaptchaCode'[\]]/@value" File="[INSTALLDIR]Web.config"
Value="[[TARGET_ENVIRONMENT].CAPTCHA_REQUIRED]" />
The escape characters and whatnot are hardly intuitive and it took forever to
get it to work, but this is the syntax I use in our installers to change values
in our config files. Hope this helps.
-Matt
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From: Shaun Wilde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 12:00 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] xmlfile and namespaces
I am trying to use xmlfile on an file with namespaces I would therefore
construct my query to look like this
ElementPath="//*[\[]local-name()='deployment'[\]]/*[\[]local-name()='deploymentProvider'[\]]/@codebase"
but I get the following error
ExecXmlFile: Error 0x80004005: failed to find node: //*/*/@codebase in XML
file: C:\Program Files\XXX\XXX.application
MSI (s) (20!60) [19:44:10:257]: Product: XXX Service -- Error 25532. Failed to
find node:
//*[local-name()='deployment']/*[local-name()='deploymentProvider']/@codebase
in XML file: C:\Program Files\XXX\XXX.application, system error: -2147467259
only 1 node matches that query in the file can xmlfile handle such xpath
queries?
If not how is one to handle xml files that have many namespaces within them
since there does not appear to be a way of adding namespace information into
the xmlfile CA
Shaun
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