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The XML Example Document

We will use the following XML document in the examples below.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <bookstore> <book> <title lang="eng">Harry Potter</title> <price>29.99</price> </book> <book> <title lang="eng">Learning XML</title> <price>39.95</price> </book> </bookstore>

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XPath Axes
An axis defines a node-set relative to the current node. AxisName ancestor ancestor-or-self attribute child descendant descendant-or-self following following-sibling namespace parent preceding Result Selects all ancestors (parent, grandparent, etc.) of the current node Selects all ancestors (parent, grandparent, etc.) of the current node and the current node itself Selects all attributes of the current node Selects all children of the current node Selects all descendants (children, grandchildren, etc.) of the current node Selects all descendants (children, grandchildren, etc.) of the current node and the current node itself Selects everything in the document after the closing tag of the current node Selects all siblings after the current node Selects all namespace nodes of the current node Selects the parent of the current node Selects all nodes that appear before the current node in the document, except ancestors, attribute nodes and namespace nodes Selects all siblings before the current node Selects the current node

preceding-sibling self

Location Path Expression

A location path can be absolute or relative. An absolute location path starts with a slash ( / ) and a relative location path does not. In both cases the location path consists of one or more steps, each separated by a slash:

An absolute location path: /step/step/... A relative location path: step/step/...

Each step is evaluated against the nodes in the current node-set. A step consists of: an axis (defines the tree-relationship between the selected nodes and the current node)

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a node-test (identifies a node within an axis) zero or more predicates (to further refine the selected node-set) The syntax for a location step is:

axisname::nodetest[predicate]

Examples
Example child::book attribute::lang child::* attribute::* child::text() child::node() descendant::book ancestor::book ancestor-or-self::book child::*/child::price Result Selects all book nodes that are children of the current node Selects the lang attribute of the current node Selects all element children of the current node Selects all attributes of the current node Selects all text node children of the current node Selects all children of the current node Selects all book descendants of the current node Selects all book ancestors of the current node Selects all book ancestors of the current node - and the current as well if it is a book node Selects all price grandchildren of the current node

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