Example

Given a simple xml :

            <catalog>
                <book id="book1">
                    <author id="auth1">Gambardella, Matthew</author>
                    <title>XML Developer's Guide</title>
                    <genre id="bk101">Computer</genre>
                    <price>44.95</price>
                    <publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date>
                    <description>An in-depth look at creating applications
                        with XML.</description>
                </book>
            </catalog>

Expressions matching nodes:

Pointer content	Result	Error
xpath(//.[@id='auth1'])	<author id="auth1">Gambardella, Matthew</author>
xpath(//price/following-sibling::*)	<publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date><description>An in-depth look at creating applications with XML.</description>
xpath(//author/@id='auth1')	true

XPath Scheme

Example

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