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Muhammed Refaat
Muhammed Refaat

Reputation: 9103

I want to retrieve an XML attribute value using XPath

I want to search an attribute value that exists in an XML file using XPath, for example to search in the nodes values you type "//ex1/ex2/ex3/text()" but what if i want to get the value of a parameter exists in a node,

let's consider a want to get humidity from the following XML data:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    -<rss version="2.0" xmlns:yweather="http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/ns/rss/1.0" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#">
    <!-- api6.weather.ch1.yahoo.com Thu May 16 06:04:56 PST 2013 -->
     -<channel> 
 <language>en-us</language>
 <ttl>60</ttl> 
<yweather:atmosphere pressure="29.97" visibility="3.73" rising="0" humidity="73"/> <yweather:astronomy sunset="6:41 pm" sunrise="4:59 am"/>
</channel>
</rss>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1892

Answers (2)

LarsH
LarsH

Reputation: 27996

You could use //*/@humidity. That would give you all humidity attribute nodes, everywhere in the document.

Upvotes: 2

Aravind Yarram
Aravind Yarram

Reputation: 80166

You would use //atmosphere/@humidity. GO through this XPath syntax tutorial.

Upvotes: 0

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