Re: [rules-users] Solution for reasoning over XML?

Is this paper freely available? I would be interested in seeing a copy of it since I have recently been using with Drools to detect all sorts of data conditions in XML documents. Chris On 11/01/2013 07:03, Wolfgang Laun wrote: > There was my talk at IntelliFest 2012: "Reasoning with XML Data". > Although it assumes that XML elements are unmarshalled into regular > Pojos, it may still contain some useful ideas and code snippets. > > I'll send you the paper off-list, and I'd be interested to learn about > your reason for not converting to Pojos (using JAXB or similar). > > Best > Wolfgang > > > On 11/01/2013, craigparra <craigparra(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was looking around trying to find a solution for reasoning over any >> XML >> in >> drools, without having to convert the XML into java objects, but >> couldn't >> find any example where this had been done. >> >> I have opted to DOM parse the XML, then recursively wrap every Element >> node >> in a convenience class (XmlElement) and insert as facts. That is every >> element is inserted individually as a fact. >> >> My conditionals look like: >> >> $xml : XmlElement(name == 'someName', value == 'someValue') >> $xml : XmlElement(path== '/some/xpathlike/path', value == 'someValue') >> $xml : XmlElement(attribute['someAttr'] == 'someValue') >> >> or using a DSL: >> >> An XML element exists >> - named someName with a value of >> - at path /some/xpathlike/path with a value in "someVal","someOtherVal" >> >> Is this a pattern that other drools users have encountered? Or tried to >> solve. >> >> It seems to work quite well, at least in my scenario - but clearly it >> has >> limitations based on the DOM parse (ie not great for massive XML files). >> >> Was wondering if anyone else had tried to solve how to use XML as facts? >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/Solution-for-reasoning-over-XML-tp40214... >> Sent from the Drools: User forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> _______________________________________________ >> rules-users mailing list >> rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users >> > _______________________________________________ > rules-users mailing list > rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users