http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Sun, 18 May 2008 14:42:18 GMT DZone Snippets: examples code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5443 A few XPath examples copied from <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/XPath/xpath_syntax.asp">XPath Syntax</a> [w3schools.com] <br /> <br />Predicates <br /><code> <br />/bookstore/book[1] # Selects the first book element that is the child of the bookstore element. <br /> # Note: IE5 and later has implemented that [0] should be the first node, <br /> # but according to the W3C standard it should have been [1]!! <br />/bookstore/book[last()] # Selects the last book element that is the child of the bookstore element <br />/bookstore/book[last()-1] # Selects the last but one book element that is the child of the bookstore element <br />/bookstore/book[position()<3] # Selects the first two book elements that are children of the bookstore element <br />//title[@lang] # Selects all the title elements that have an attribute named lang <br /></code> <br />Selecting Unknown Nodes <br /><code> <br />/bookstore/* # Selects all the child nodes of the bookstore element <br />//* # Selects all elements in the document <br />//title[@*] # Selects all title elements which have any attribute <br /></code> <br />Selecting Several Paths <br /><code> <br />//book/title | //book/price # Selects all the title AND price elements of all book elements <br /></code> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:34:28 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5443 jrobertson (James Robertson)