XPath - Examples

Examples

Given a sample XML document

en.wikipedia.org de.wikipedia.org fr.wikipedia.org pl.wikipedia.org es.wikipedia.org en.wiktionary.org fr.wiktionary.org vi.wiktionary.org tr.wiktionary.org es.wiktionary.org

The XPath expression

/wikimedia/projects/project/@name

Selects name attributes for all projects, and

/wikimedia//editions

Selects all editions of all projects, and

/wikimedia/projects/project/editions/edition/text

Selects addresses of all English Wikimedia projects (text of all edition elements where language attribute is equal to English). And the following

/wikimedia/projects/project/editions/edition/text

Selects addresses of all Wikipedias (text of all edition elements that exist under project element with a name attribute of Wikipedia)

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