xpath

I think this xpath should work //id[starts-with(text(),’Annotations’)]

You can use this xpath: //a[.=”Next.”]/preceding::a[1] If I were to diagram it out, using an X to represent the current location, it would look like this: ——————+——+—————— preceding-sibling | self | following-sibling ——————|——|—————— last() … 2 1 | X | 1 2 … last() ——————+——+——————

Try this: //foo/following-sibling::text()[1] (replace //foo/ with your current XPath expression. With this XML: <data> <foo>foo</foo> bar <baz>baz</baz> </data> it gives bar as output.

You could do it this way: ../node[not(text()) and preceding-sibling::node[@id][1][@id=’1′]] where ‘1’ is the id of the current node (generate the expression dynamically). The expression says: from the current context go to the parent select those child nodes that have no text and from all “preceding sibling nodes that have an id” the first one must … Read more

Use: /*/ITEM[starts-with(REVENUE_YEAR,’2552′)]/REGION Note: Unless your host language can’t handle element instance as result, do not use text nodes specially in mixed content data model. Do not start expressions with // operator when the schema is well known.

You need to learn about namespaces and how to define/register a namespace in your XPath engine so that you can then use the associated prefix for names in that registered namespace. There are plenty of questions in the xpath tag asking how to use names that are in a namespace — with good answers. Search … Read more

Use the following: (//dl)[1] The parentheses are significant. You want the first node that results from //dl (not the set of dl elements that are the first child of their parent (which is what //dl[1] (no parens) returns)). This is easier to see when one realizes that // is shorthand for (i.e. expands fully to) … Read more