XPath dnevnik

An XPath recipe list. See also Bibliographic XPath Queries and BaseX Adventures.

• 2011-09-03
• XPath 2.0
• Find all attributes “ana” whose value ends with “exempla”
• Expression (apply the forward slash abbreviation before @ana if necessary):

@ana[ends-with(.,”exempla”)]

• 2011-09-04
• XPath 2.0
• Find the “seg” element with the xml:id attribute value “E6.9.4”; also find all “seg” descendants of this element
• Expression (add double forward slash before seg as needed):

seg[ancestor-or-self::seg[@xml:id[. eq 'E6.9.4']]]

• 2011-09-08
• XPath 2.0
• Find all elements with attribute ana whose value contains “MARK”
• Expression (add double forward slash before @ana as needed):

@ana[contains(.,”MARK”)]

• 2011-09-11
• XPath 2.0
• Find all seg elements with attribute ana whose value contains “MARK”, preceded by seg elements with attribute ana whose value contains “NORMAL”
• Expression (add double forward slash before seg as needed):

seg[@ana[. eq 'MARK']][preceding-sibling::seg[@ana[. eq 'NORMAL']]]

• 2011-09-12
• XPath 2.0
• Find all seg elements with attribute @ana whose value equals “PLANA”, immediately preceded by a seg element sibling with attribute @ana whose value contains “tekst”
• Expression (add double forward slash before seg as needed):

seg[@ana[. eq 'PLANA']][preceding-sibling::seg[1][@ana[contains(.,'tekst')]]]

• 2011-12-2
• XPath 2.0
• Find all anchor elements with attribute @n whose value is an odd number
• Expression (add double forward slash before seg as needed):

anchor[number(@n) mod 2 = 1]

• Useful link: stackoverflow question XSLT Template to identify odd/even numbers?