Thank you that was a good ide!
Now i have another trick question!

Can XPath be used to update an Atribute or Element value?
Have tried some and also read some place that Dom+Xpath
together could be read-only.

"Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@h...> wrote in message news:<e84FPhqXEHA.3716@T...>...
> "shoe" <hassehb@y...> wrote in message
> news:f0e1779.0406300524.43b89e6a@p......
> > Terrible simple question i think but I'm to tired mocking around now
> > for 2 days with this problem !
> > Using parser java "Dom" I want to change one "name" tag value ONLY in
> > this XML (below). Notice that there are many "name" tags.
> >
> > I can search trough this xml using a Dom parser but that will give me
> > a list of all name tags - using this syntax:
> > doc.getElementsByTagName("name");
> >
> > how do I directly access and change the deepest "name" tag:
> > projectDescription/buildSpec/buildCommand/name ??????
> >
> > I have tríed this: (does not work)!
> >
>  doc.getElementsByTagName("projectDescription/buildSpec/buildCommand/name");
> > to get a lock on that tag and then simply change the value.
> >
> > There are a risk that I access the wrong tag if i cant specify full
> > path!
> >
> >
> If possible with your parser use XPath to select the nodes,
> "projectDescription/buildSpec/buildCommand/name", rather than
> getElementsByTagName.
> 
> 
> Joe (MVP - xml)