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XPath with multiple conditions

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What XPath can I use to select any category with a name attribute specified and any child node author with the value specified. I’ve tried different variations of the path below with no success: //quotes/category[@name=”Sport” and author=”James Small”] The XML: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <quotes> <category name=”Sport”> <author>James Small<quote date=”09/02/1985″>Quote One</quote><quote date=”11/02/1925″>Quote nine</quote></author> </category> <category name=”Music”> … Read more

How to execute XPath one-liners from shell?

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Is there a package out there, for Ubuntu and/or CentOS, that has a command-line tool that can execute an XPath one-liner like foo //element@attribute filename.xml or foo //element@attribute < filename.xml and return the results line by line? I’m looking for something that would allow me to just apt-get install foo or yum install foo and … Read more

XPath to select Element by attribute value

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I have following XML. <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <Employees> <Employee id=”3″> <age>40</age> <name>Tom</name> <gender>Male</gender> <role>Manager</role> </Employee> <Employee id=”4″> <age>25</age> <name>Meghna</name> <gender>Female</gender> <role>Manager</role> </Employee> </Employees> I want to select Employee element with id=”4″. I am using below XPath expression which is not returning anything. //Employee/[@id=’4′]/text() I checked it at http://chris.photobooks.com/xml/default.htm and it says invalid xpath, not sure … Read more

How to verify an XPath expression in Chrome Developers tool or Firefox’s Firebug?

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How can I verify my XPath? I am using Chrome Developers tool to inspect the elements and form my XPath. I verify it using the Chrome plugin XPath Checker, however it does not always give me the result. What is a better way to verify my XPath. I have also tried using Firebug to inspect … Read more

XPath: Get parent node from child node

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I need get the parent node for child node title 50 At the moment I am using only //*[title=”50″] How could I get its parent? Result should be the store node. <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <d:data xmlns:d=”defiant-namespace” d:mi=”23″> <store d:mi=”22″> <book price=”12.99″ d:price=”Number” d:mi=”4″> <title d:constr=”String” d:mi=”1″>Sword of Honour</title> <category d:constr=”String” d:mi=”2″>fiction</category> <author d:constr=”String” d:mi=”3″>Evelyn Waugh</author> … Read more

XPath: How to select elements based on their value?

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I am new to using XPath and this may be a basic question. Kindly bear with me and help me in resolving the issue. I have an XML file like this: <RootNode> <FirstChild> <Element attribute1=”abc” attribute2=”xyz”>Data</Element> <FirstChild> </RootNode> I can validate the presence of an <Element> tag with: //Element[@attribute1=”abc” and @attribute2=”xyz”] Now I also want … Read more

XPath to select element based on childs child value

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Trying to select an element based on the value of one of it’s childrens childrens Thinking the following but not working, appreciate any help, thanks ./book[/author/name=”John”] or ./book[/author/name text() = ‘John’] Want all books where the author name=”John” Xml file <list> <book> <author> <name>John</name> <number>4324234</number> </author> <title>New Book</title> <isbn>dsdaassda</isbn> </book> <book>…</book> <book>…</book> </list> 1 Answer … Read more