Planet Bob

To fix this issue, store the count for XPath itself rather than the tag.

ALSO NOTE that XPath has "1" as starting index, not the ZERO.

public class SAXCreateXPath extends DefaultHandler { // map of all encountered tags and their running count private Map<String, Integer> xPathCount = new HashMap<String, Integer>(); // keep track of the succession of elements private Stack<String> tags = new Stack<String>();; /** * Construct the XPath expression */ private String getCurrentXPath(String child) { String str = "//"; boolean first = true; for (String tag : tags) { if (first) str = str + tag; else str = str + "/" + tag; str += "[" + xPathCount.get(str) + "]"; first = false; } if (child != null) { str = str + (first ? "" : "/") + child; } return str; } @Override public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes attributes) throws SAXException { String xPath = getCurrentXPath(localName); int count = (xPathCount.get(xPath) == null) ? 0 : xPathCount.get(xPath); xPathCount.put(xPath, 1 + count); tags.push(localName); System.out.println(getCurrentXPath()); } @Override public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName) throws SAXException { tags.pop(); } }

you must have done something else too. As it is not working for me. I've Spring 3.0.2 rather than 3.0.1.

See if you can help me. Meanwhile, I'll still dig out.