• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Stylus Studio®
• Chapter 2: Editing and Querying XML
• Chapter 3: Converting Non-XML Files to XML
• Chapter 4: Working with XSLT
• Chapter 5: Creating XSLT Using the XSLT Mapper
• Chapter 6: Debugging Stylesheets
• Chapter 7: Defining XML Schemas
• Chapter 8: Defining Document Type Definitions
• Chapter 9: Writing XPath Expressions
  • About the XPath Processor
  • Using the XPath Query Editor
  • Sample Data for Examples and Practice
  • Getting Started with Queries
    • Obtaining All Marked-Up Text
    • Obtaining a Portion of an XML Document
    • Obtaining All Elements of a Particular Name
    • Obtaining All Elements of a Particular Name from a Particular Branch
    • Different Results from Similar Queries
    • Queries That Return More Than You Want
    • Specifying Attributes in Queries
    • Filtering Results of Queries
    • Wildcards in Queries
    • Calling Functions in Queries
    • Case Sensitivity and Blank Spaces in Queries
    • Precedence of Query Operators
  • Specifying the Nodes to Evaluate
  • Handling Strings and Text
  • Specifying Boolean Expressions and Functions
  • Specifying Number Operations and Functions
  • Comparing Values
  • Finding a Particular Node
  • Obtaining a Union
  • Obtaining Information About a Node or a Node Set
  • Using XPath Expressions in Stylesheets
  • Accessing Other Documents During Query Execution
  • XPath Quick Reference
• Chapter 10: Working with XQuery in Stylus Studio
• Chapter 11: Composing Web Service Calls
• Chapter 12: Accessing Relational Data as XML
• Chapter 13: Building XML Pipelines
• Chapter 14: Publishing XML Data
• Chapter 15: Integrating with Third-Party File Systems
• Chapter 16: Extending Stylus Studio
• Chapter 17: The Stylus Studio Java API
• Chapter 18: Stylus Studio GUI Reference

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Obtaining All Elements of a Particular Name from a

Although sometimes you might want all like-named elements wherever they are in a document, other times you might want only those like-named elements from a particular part of the document (branch of the tree).

For example, you might want all price elements contained in book elements, but not price elements contained in magazine elements. The query is to return such a result is:

/bookstore/book//price
               

            

This query returns all price elements that are contained in book elements. Some of these price elements are immediate children of book elements. One returned price element is a great-grandchild of the second book element. The following figure shows how the XPath processor interprets this query: