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Subject: Re: xpath query
From: Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:20:48 +0100

Senthil Nathan wrote:

Hi, Thanks. And as per xml standards i can't have a tag as <1>. So, if I have that as attribute,

You cannot. You cannot have, i.e.: <node 1="value" />. You can, however, have <node attr="<1>" />, which is as close as it can get to have "<1>" as attribute (value).

can i use xpath to specifically select that node.

only if you have a node that is valid XML in the input, of course ;) then yes (you can select about anything in XML with XPath).

ie., with the foll. xml,
<root>
<level1>
    <a id="1">......</a>
    <a id="2">......</a>
</level1>
</root>
Is the following correct, /root/level1/*[@id='1']/* to select all children of <a id="1">

No. It will select all children of all nodes directly under 'level1' with an id="1" (i.e., if you have <b id="i1"> its children will also be selected). If you want all children of <a id="1">, write:

/root/level1/a[@id="1"]/*

HTH,
Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma

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