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jmrsilva
jmrsilva

Reputation: 11

Get values from XPath

I need to get some values from this xml document:

<node id="A." label="General Literature">
        <isComposedBy>
            <node id="A.0" label="GENERAL">
                <isComposedBy>
                    <node label="Biographies/autobiographies"/>
                    <node label="Conference proceedings"/>
                    <node label="General literary works (e.g., fiction, plays)"/>
                </isComposedBy>
            </node>
            <node id="A.1" label="INTRODUCTORY AND SURVEY"/>
            <node id="A.2" label="REFERENCE (e.g., dictionaries, encyclopedias, glossaries)"/>
            <node id="A.m" label="MISCELLANEOUS"/>
        </isComposedBy>
    </node>

In Java how can i select only the nodes with the attributes id and label and then get the values of those attributes? I've tried with XPath using this expression:

XPathExpression expr = path.compile("//*/@id | /@label");

But this is not returning what i want.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 153

Answers (3)

M A
M A

Reputation: 72844

Using //node[@id and @label] will get all node elements having id and label attributes. Then you would need to loop over the nodes to get their attribute values. An example using DOM:

    for(int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) {
        Node node = nodes.item(i);
        NamedNodeMap attributes = node.getAttributes();
        System.out.println(attributes.getNamedItem("id").getTextContent());
        System.out.println(attributes.getNamedItem("label").getTextContent());
    }

Upvotes: 1

Martin Honnen
Martin Honnen

Reputation: 167426

Use XPathExpression expr = path.compile("//*[@id and @label]/(@id | /@label)"); with XPath 2.0 or XPathExpression expr = path.compile("//*[@id and @label]/@id | //*[@id and @label]/@label"); with XPath 1.0.

Upvotes: 1

Lucas Wa
Lucas Wa

Reputation: 530

Try this way:

XPathExpression expr = path.compile("//*/*[@id and @label]");

Upvotes: 0

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