[Dev] Interface Up/Down

[Leo Bayer]

Couldn't you try something like...

xpath=reverse(/ZiptieElementDocument//interface//adminStatus/text()|/ 
ZiptieElementDocument//interface//name/text())

There are a lot of crazy xpath functions to do almost anything.

  - Leo


On May 17, 2008, at 11:45 PM, Brett Wooldridge wrote:

> Ryan,
>
> I “fixed” (read “broke”) your interface up/down tool.  It now uses a  
> new ‘grid’ input contributor which uses XPath to populate the grid  
> with both the current up/down status of the interface as well as the  
> interface name in a grid.  Probably broke in this case, because the  
> input generated by the grid tool is a CSV for each selected item in  
> the grid (I’m trying not to get too tricky by allowing specific  
> column input determination).
>
> So in the case of the ‘old’ list input it was using, if there was a  
> list like so:
>
> loopback0
> loopback1
> fastethernet0
>
> Your tool might get:
>
> “loopback0”,“fastethernet0”
>
> as it’s input.  In the case of the new grid control the grid  
> contains something like
>
> up    loopback0
> down  loopback1
> up    fastethernet0
>
> In which case, your tool input will be a properly escaped CSV like so:
>
> “up,loopback0”,”down,fastethernet0”
>
> Obviously, your tool can choose to ignore the current up/down status  
> reflected in the input, but will have to deal with it enough to know  
> to ignore it.
>
> If you play around with it you’ll note that there is no way using  
> XPath with our document structure to generate a grid like so:
>
> loopback0     up
> loopback1     down
> fastethernet0 up
>
> This is because of our decision to use ‘tags’ rather than  
> ‘attributes’ on nodes like interface.  If they were attributes we  
> could chose the selection order, but as nodes the result will always  
> be in “document order” and because “adminStatus” occurs before  
> “name” in the document it will always be emitted first by XPath.   
> Cest la vie.
>
> Anyway, sorry for breaking your tool.  It was for the greater good  
> of mankind.
>
> -Brett
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