xpath

How to get attribute value using SelectSingleNode?

I am parsing a xml document, I need find out the gid (an attribute) value (3810). Based on SelectSingleNode(). I found it is not easy to find the attribute name and it's value. Can I use this method or I must switch to other way. Attached my code. How can I use book obj to get the attribute value3810 for gid. Thank you. My test.xm...

XPath to find nearest ancestor element that contains an element that has an attribute with a certain value

ancestor::foo[bar[@attr="val"]] I thought this would work, but it's not. I need to find the nearest foo element going up in the tree that has a bar child element, which in turn has an attr attribute of val. ...

XSLT To HTML with Simple Grouping of XML Data using templates instead of for-each

I have been messing with xslt off and on since I became a sharepoint administrator, it uses xslt alot for displaying list data. I have recently started using it to transform database results that I have converted to xml using an extension method. I am trying to produce clean html. My first attempt, worked fine. However I used for-eac...

Xpath expression to retrieve oldest/earliest node

I have an XML snippet, so: <STATES> <STATE> <NAME>Alabama</NAME> <ABBREVIATION>AL</ABBREVIATION> <CAPITAL>Montgomery</CAPITAL> <POPULATION>4661900</POPULATION> <AREA>52419</AREA> <DATEOFSTATEHOOD>14 December 1819</DATEOFSTATEHOOD> </STATE> <STATE> <NAME>Alaska</NAME> <ABBREVIATION>AK</ABBREVIATION> ...

XPath: How to check multiple attributes across similar nodes

Hi, If I have some xml like: <root> <customers> <customer firstname="Joe" lastname="Bloggs" description="Member of the Bloggs family"/> <customer firstname="Joe" lastname="Soap" description="Member of the Soap family"/> <customer firstname="Fred" lastname="Bloggs" description="Member of the Bloggs family"...

Can XPath concatenate two nodeset values? (for use in XForms)

Hi! I am wanting to concatenate two nodeset values using XPath in XForms. I know that XPath has a concat(string, string) function, but how would I go about concatenating two nodeset values? BEGIN EDIT: I tried concat function.. I tried this.. and variations of it to make it work, but it doesn't <xf:value ref="concat(instance('para...

Xpath help. Get childnode with variable name

I have the following XML: <StatsContainer> <Variant1>0</Variant1> <Variant2>0.5</Variant2> <Variant3>1.2</Variant3> <Variant4>4.1</Variant4> <Variant5>93.9</Variant5> <Variant6>0.3</Variant6> <Variant7>0</Variant7> <Variant8>0</Variant8> <Variant9>0</Variant9> <Variant10>0</Variant10> <Variant11>0</Variant11> <Va...

Retrieving XML node from a path specified in an attribute value of another node

From this XML source : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <ROOT> <STRUCT> <COL order="1" nodeName="FOO/BAR" colName="Foo Bar" /> <COL order="2" nodeName="FIZZ" colName="Fizz" /> </STRUCT> <DATASET> <DATA> <FIZZ>testFizz</FIZZ> <FOO> <BAR>testBar</BAR> <LIB>testLib</LIB> </FOO> ...

Selecting unique records in XSLT/XPath

I have to select only unique records from an XML document, in the context of an <xsl:for-each> loop. I am limited by Visual Studio to using XSL 1.0. <availList> <item> <schDate>2010-06-24</schDate> <schFrmTime>10:00:00</schFrmTime> <schToTime>13:00:00</schToTime> <various...

How to use XPath to filter elements by TextContent? get parent by axis?

Hi all: I've found a similar question on SO, however, that seems not exactly what I wanna achieve: Say, this is a sample XML file: <root> <item> <id isInStock="true">10001</id> <category>Loose Balloon</category> </item> <item> <id isInStock="true">10001</id> <category>Bouquet Balloon</catego...

breakdown xpath

I am looking at the website. Trying to transfer selenium html to junit but could not get it to work because it keeps saying Error: Element not found. Maybe syntax error because I was able to break it down to the shortest path in firebug but still could not get to compile..What do you do in this case ? Enrollment I use firebug Xpath to ...

XPath 1.0 to find if an element's value is in a list of values

Is there a way to construct an XPath that evaluates whether an element's value is in a predefined list of values? Something akin to this: /Location/Addr[State='TX or AL or MA'] Which would match nodes whith State elements for Texas, Alabama, or Massachusetts? I know that I can unpack the expression: /Location/Addr[State='TX] or /Loc...

How to get node without children in xQuery?

So I have two nodes of elements that I'm essentially trying to join. I want the top level node to stay the same but the child nodes to be replaced by those cross referenced. Given: <stuff> <item foo="foo" boo="1"/> <item foo="bar" boo="2" /> <item foo="baz" boo="3"/> <item foo="blah boo="4""/> </stuff> <list a="1" b="2"> <f...

How to use unicode inside an xpath string? (UnicodeEncodeError)

I'm using xpath in Selenium RC via the Python api. I need to click an a element who's text is "Submit »" Here's the error that I'm getting: In [18]: sel.click(u"xpath=//a[text()='Submit \xbb')]") --------------------------------------------------------------------------- UnicodeDecodeError Traceback (most recent...

Is there a way to get the xpath in google chrome?

I have a webpage I want to use with YQL. But I need the xpath of a specific item. I can see it in the debug tools area for google chrome but I don't see a way to copy that xpath. Is there a way to copy a full xpath or an extension to do it? Thanks, G-Man ...

How to access non-first matches with xpath in Selenium RC ?

I have 20 labels in my page: In [85]: sel.get_xpath_count("//label") Out[85]: u'20' And I can get the first one be default: In [86]: sel.get_text("xpath=//label") Out[86]: u'First label:' But, unlike the xpath docs I've found, I'm getting an error trying to subscript the xpath to get to the second label's text: In [87]: sel.get_te...

In xpath why can I use greater-than symbol > but not less-than <

Using c#3 compiled transforms the following seems to work just fine... <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="$valA > $valB"> <xsl:value-of select="$maxUnder" /> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="$valA &lt; $valC"> <xsl:value-of select="$maxOver" /> </xsl:when> </xsl:choose> However if i dare use a < in place of &lt; i...

What does it take to get the "LyricArtist" from this XML feed using Nokogiri?

First the xml: http://api.chartlyrics.com/apiv1.asmx//GetLyric?lyricId=90&amp;lyricCheckSum=9600c891e35f602eb6e1605fb7b5229e doc = Nokogiri::XML(open("http://api.chartlyrics.com/apiv1.asmx//GetLyric?lyricId=90&amp;lyricCheckSum=9600c891e35f602eb6e1605fb7b5229e")) Successfully will grab the document content. After this point i am unab...

Find element all of whose children have a given value

for example, i have this xml <elements> <a> <b>6</b> <b>5</b> <b>6</b> </a> <a> <b>5</b> <b>5</b> <b>6</b> </a> <a> <b>5</b> <b>5</b> <b>5</b> <b>5</b> </a> </elements> i need a xpath query, which must return me parent tag, only if all its children are equal to 5 (a[3] in this case). ...

XSL: How to print an iterated node in for-each

xml: <skills> <skill>PHP</skill> <skill>CSS</skill> <skill>HTML</skill> <skill>XML</skill> </skills> XSL: <ul> <xsl:for-each select="skills/skill"> <li><xsl:value-of select="[what should be xpath here]" /></li </xsl:for-each> </ul> Here what should be the xpath to print each skill? ...