How to select nodes whose parent has a specific attribute

[bearclaws]

I want to select certain nodes from an XML file whose parent nodes
contain a particular attribute id.

For instance, here's a sample XML file:

<AAA>
<BBB id="111">text
<CCC>text</CCC>
</BBB>
<BBB id="222">
<CCC>text</CCC>
</BBB>
</AAA>

....and I want to loop through "AAA" and get all "CCC" nodes whose
parents id is "111".

How do I do this?

Thanks,
BC

 

[Martin Honnen]

I want to select certain nodes from an XML file whose parent nodes
contain a particular attribute id.

For instance, here's a sample XML file:

<AAA>
<BBB id="111">text
<CCC>text</CCC>
</BBB>
<BBB id="222">
<CCC>text</CCC>
</BBB>
</AAA>

...and I want to loop through "AAA" and get all "CCC" nodes whose
parents id is "111".

XPath expression is
/AAA/*[@id = '111']/CCC

 

[bearclaws]

Thanks but I left out the confusing part (sorry)...

I want to loop through "AAA" and get all "CCC" nodes whose parents id
is "111"...AND whose parents node value is "text".

I'm not sure how to combine both an attribute and a value condition.

Thoughts?

 

[Martin Honnen]

bearclaws wrote:

I want to loop through "AAA" and get all "CCC" nodes whose parents id
is "111"...AND whose parents node value is "text".

Then perhaps the XPath expression is
/AAA/*[@id = '111' and text()[1] = 'text']/CCC
but there are many different views of what the node value is so I am not
sure that will select what you are looking for.

You might want to look at tutorials like
<http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/default.asp>

 

[bearclaws]

Many thanks! This worked great