XPath Examples

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• Select the document node/

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• Select the 'root' element/root

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• Select all 'actor' elements that are direct children of the 'actors' element/root/actors/actor

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• Select all 'singer' elements regardless of their positions in the document//foo:singer

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• Select the 'id' attributes of the 'singer' elements//foo:singer/@id

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• Select the textual value of first 'actor' element//actor[1]/text()

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• Select the last 'actor' element//actor[last()]

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• Select the first and second 'actor' elements using their position//actor[position() < 3]

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• Select all 'actor' elements that have an 'id' attribute//actor[@id]

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• Select the 'actor' element with the 'id' attribute value of '3'//actor[@id='3']

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• Select all 'actor' nodes with the 'id' attribute value lower or equal to '3'//actor[@id<=3]

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• Select all the children of the 'singers' node/root/foo:singers/*

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• Select all the elements in the document//*

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• Select all the 'actor' elements AND the 'singer' elements//actor|//foo:singer

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• Select the name of the first element in the documentname(//*[1])

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• Select the numeric value of the 'id' attribute of the first 'actor' elementnumber(//actor[1]/@id)

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• Select the string representation value of the 'id' attribute of the first 'actor' elementstring(//actor[1]/@id)

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• Select the length of the first 'actor' element's textual valuestring-length(//actor[1]/text())

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• Select the local name of the first 'singer' elementlocal-name(//foo:singer[1])

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• Select the number of 'singer' elementscount(//foo:singer)

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• Select the sum of the 'id' attributes of the 'singer' elementssum(//foo:singer/@id)

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