Monday, October 28, 2013

XPath Cheatsheet

<root xmlns:foo="http://www.foo.org/" xmlns:bar="http://www.bar.org">
 <actors>
  <actor id="1">Christian Bale</actor>
  <actor id="2">Liam Neeson</actor>
  <actor id="3">Michael Caine</actor>
 </actors>
 <foo:singers>
  <foo:singer id="4">Tom Waits</foo:singer>
  <foo:singer id="5">B.B. King</foo:singer>
  <foo:singer id="6">Ray Charles</foo:singer>
 </foo:singers>
</root>

Excerpted from: http://www.freeformatter.com/xpath-tester.html


1. Select the document node

/

2. Select the 'root' element

/root

3. Select all 'actor' elements that are direct children of the 'actors' element.

/root/actors/actor

4. Select all 'singer' elements regardless of their positions in the document.

//foo:singer

5. Select the 'id' attributes of the 'singer' elements regardless of their positions in the document.

//foo:singer/@id

6. Select the textual value of first 'actor' element.

//actor[1]/text()

7. Select the last 'actor' element.

//actor[last()]

8. Select the first and second 'actor' elements using their position.

//actor[position() < 3]

9. Select all 'actor' elements that have an 'id' attribute.

//actor[@id]

10. Select the 'actor' element with the 'id' attribute value of '3'.

//actor[@id='3']

11. Select all 'actor' nodes with the 'id' attribute value lower or equal to '3'.

//actor[@id<=3]

12. Select all the children of the 'singers' node.

/root/foo:singers/*

13. Select all the elements in the document.

//*

14. Select all the 'actor' elements AND the 'singer' elements.

//actor|//foo:singer

15. Select the name of the first element in the document.

name(//*[1])

16. Select the numeric value of the 'id' attribute of the first 'actor' element.

number(//actor[1]/@id)

17. Select the string representation value of the 'id' attribute of the first 'actor' element.

string(//actor[1]/@id)

18. Select the length of the first 'actor' element's textual value.

string-length(//actor[1]/text())

19. Select the local name of the first 'singer' element, i.e. without the namespace.

local-name(//foo:singer[1])

20. Select the number of 'singer' elements.

count(//foo:singer)

21. Select the sum of the 'id' attributes of the 'singer' elements.

sum(//foo:singer/@id)

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