xpath: how to select nth option ?
using xpath, how do you select the n-th option ? <select> <option></option> <option></option> </select> /html/body/select/option[?] ...
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Transforming attributes to elements with matching name in XSLT 1.0
Hi, I need to create an XSLT which tranforms an attribute in the source xml to a new element in the target xml with the element name assigned the "Name" value of the attribute in the source xml. Eg: Source: <ProductType>Fridge</ProductType> <Features> <Feature Name="ValveID">somename</Feature> <Feature Name="KeyIden...
Descendent Relations + Indexing in Selenium
Hello! I'm testing a web page using selenium. I want to get all the 'leaf elements and elements which contain text'. I use the following working XPath. //*[. != '' or not(*)] This works great. But now I want to loop through each of these elements and run some command on them. I actually want to get their Position, but I illustrate ...
Parsing namespaced XML using libxml-ruby
I'm attempting to parse XML in the following format (from the European Central Bank data feed) using libxml-ruby: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <gesmes:Envelope xmlns:gesmes="http://www.gesmes.org/xml/2002-08-01" xmlns="http://www.ecb.int/vocabulary/2002-08-01/eurofxref"> <gesmes:subject>Reference rates</...
how to select xml node using near element
Using XPath and the HTML Agility Pack, I need to select the destination text using color:#ff00ff. My HTML looks like this: <table> <tr style="color:#ff00ff"> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>destination</td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>not destination</td> </tr> </table> ...
how do i add a comment to an xpath ?
for example i have an xpath and wish to add a comment near it to identify it. /html/body/div/table/tr/td/a{this is a link} ...
ASP.NET 2.0 XmlDataSource's XPath doesn't support namespaces
Hi all. I'm trying to display (using a asp:Repeater and a asp:XmlDataSource) the content of a sitemap.xml file (see standard defined into http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php). The problem is that the binder <%#XPath("myNodeName")%> can't work when the source xml document contains custom namespaces (like required by the standard that d...
How to use XSLT 1.0 or XPath to manipulate an HTML string
This is my problem: The code snippet below (inside the <xsl:choose>) does not reliably strip <p>, <div> or <br> tags out of a string using a combination of the substring-before() and substring() functions. The string I'm trying to format is an attribute of a SharePoint SPS 2003 list item - text inputted via a rich text editor. What I i...
DOM/XPATH in PHP: What is nodeValue?
Can someone explain to me what is nodeValue in this and write out how nodeValue look like or write out what's in nodeValue? EDIT: Sorry! Yes, this is PHP. And.. foreach ($elements as $e) { echo $e->nodeValue; } What does the arrow thingy mean (->)? That's an array right? Well if you can explain to me this one part that would be gre...
XPath for selecting parent nodes based on contents of current node?
I have an XML document with a section similar to the following: <release_list> <release> <id>100</id> <file_list> <file> <id>20</id> </file> <file> <id>21</id> </file> </file_list> </release> <release> <id>101</id> <file_list> <file> <id>22</id> </file...
What's the most efficient way to do recursive XPath queries using libxml2?
I've written a C++ wrapper function for libxml2 that makes it easy for me to do queries on an XML document: bool XPathQuery( const std::string& doc, const std::string& query, XPathResults& results); But I have a problem: I need to be able to do another XPath query on the results of my first query. Currently I do this by s...
How do I access properties from parent document to use in children
I am new to Umbraco CMS. PLease help. I have a Umbraco website in which I created a DocumentType called 'Master'. The 'Master' page lets user input a goal and amount for a fund raising initiate they are undertaking. On the 'Master' page I have a Macro which automatically does the math to generate a percent that will be used throughout...
how to check if xpath node contains part of a string or many strings and get innerHTML ?
how can i express in xpath a) need select elements which contains specified keyword. (how to make it case insensitive?) z/x/c/v/a[normalize-space(text())='keyword'] b) need to select elements which contains any of given text() (case insensitive?) z/x/c/v/a[normalize-space(text())='keyword|keyword2|keyword3'] Lastly, a) how to exp...
XSLT / Xpath: Selecting a preceding comment
I have XML in the following format which I want to reformat: <blocks> <!-- === apples === --> <block name="block1"> ... </block> <!-- === bananas === --> <block name="block2"> ... </block> <!-- === oranges === --> <block name="block3"> ... </block> </blocks> My problem is I can't figu...
How can you select a node that's an unknown number of levels deep from a tag in XPath?
Example, if I have <form name="blah"> <input name="1"/> <input name="2"/> <table> <tr> <td> <unkown number of levels more> <input name="3"/> </td> </tr> <table> </form> How can I put together a query that will return input 1,2 and 3? Edit: I should note I'm not interested i...
XSL variable number of child nodes...
Hey All, I've got some XML elements with a number attached as more are available. Such as this: <Images> <Image1>C:\Path\To\AnImage</Image1> <Image2>C:\Path\To\AnotherImage</Image2> </Images> The amount of Images in each XML doc is variable. How can I make sure that my XSL file will show all elements inside the tag? I al...
can DOMXPath::query be limited to a certain depth?
Is there a way to limit the depth DOMXPath::query will look at? Consider the following document: <div> <span> <div> </div> </span> </div> How could I limit the query //div So it only matches the first level and not the descendants? ...
Python XPath Result displaying only []
Hey I have just started to use Python recently and I want to use it with a bit of xPath, the thing is when I print the result of the query I only get [] and I don't know why =S import libxml2, urllib doc = libxml2.parseDoc(urllib.urlopen("http://www.domain.com/").read()) result = doc.xpathEval("//th//td[(((count(preceding-sibling:...
XPath expression help
I have an xml file like this: <students> <student name=....> </student> <student name=....> </student> <student name=....> </student> <student name=....> <failedcourses> ... </failedcourses> </student> <student name=....> <failedcourses> ... </failedcourse> </student> </students> I.e. I have a list ...
XPATH / PHP trouble with last()
I've tried reading various tutorials online but I can't make any headway on solving this issue which is easy to describe but which I can not conceive of a solution. Here is some sample XML: <AAA> <BBB> <CCC>1</CCC> <CCC>2</CCC> </BBB> <BBB> <CCC>3</CCC> <CCC>4</CCC> </BBB> </AAA> I want...