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Nageswara Rao
Nageswara Rao

Reputation: 964

query to get element that has particular value using xpath

I doubt there is a way to get the element which has a particular value (text) from xml document using xpath.

Example doc:

<domain log-root="/logs" application-root="/applications"><resources>
<jdbc-resource pool-name="SamplePool" jndi-name="jdbc/sample" />
<jdbc-resource pool-name="TimerPool" jndi-name="abc">text1</jdbc-resource>
<jdbc-resource pool-name="TimerPool" jndi-name="def">text2</jdbc-resource>
<jdbc-resource pool-name="TimerPool" jndi-name="ghi">text3</jdbc-resource></resources</domain>

Example xPath Query:

/domain//jdbc-resource[@pool-name='TimerPool']/text()='text2'

Please post your ideas if there is any.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 362

Answers (2)

Dimitre Novatchev
Dimitre Novatchev

Reputation: 243449

Use:

/domain/*/jdbc-resource[@pool-name='TimerPool' and .='text2']

or you may use:

/domain/*/jdbc-resource[@pool-name='TimerPool'][.='text2']

Both expressions above select all jdbc-resource elements the string value of whose pool-name attribute is "TimerPoool" and whose string value (of the jdbc-resource element) is "text2" and that are grand-children of the top element of the XML document.

Upvotes: 3

Alfabravo
Alfabravo

Reputation: 7569

Well, text() should do. http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_examples.asp

Have you tried it already? Also, check the path, it could be

//jdbc-resource[@pool-name='TimerPool']/text()='text2'

or

/domain/resource/jdbc-resource[@pool-name='TimerPool']/text()='text2'

or

//resource/jdbc-resource[@pool-name='TimerPool']/text()='text2'

Upvotes: -1

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