Example: Results of XPath Expressions
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Path Expression
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Result
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bookstore
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Selects all nodes with the name "bookstore"
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/bookstore
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Selects the root element bookstore. If the path starts
with a slash ( / ) it always represents an absolute path to an element!
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bookstore/book
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Selects all book elements that are children of bookstore
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//book
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Selects all book elements no matter where they are in the
document
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bookstore//book
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Selects all book elements that are descendant of the
bookstore element, no matter where they are under the bookstore element
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//@lang
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Selects all attributes that are named lang
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/bookstore/*
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Selects all the child nodes of the bookstore element
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//*
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Selects all elements in the document
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//title[@*]
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Selects all title elements which have any attribute
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Example: Results of XPath Expressions
- An XPath expression returns either a node-set, a string, a Boolean, or a number
- The list of operators used in an XPath expression are
