Finding Elements by Attributes in a DOM Document Using XPath
XPath is an expression language for selecting nodes in an XML file.
See Finding Elements by Absolute Location in a DOM Document Using XPath for common XPath
expression for selecting elements. This example adds to those
examples by demonstrating the ability to select elements based on their
attributes.
This example demonstrates some common uses of expressions that
use attributes; for more information on XPath, see the
specification at http://www.w3c.org/TR/xpath. In the example,
the result of an XPath expression is shown next to the expression; the
numbers are ids of elements in the sample file shown at the end of the
example.
XPath 1.0 does not support case-insensitive matches. However,
a simple case-insensitive match can be done using the translate()
function, which converts a string by mapping one character into another:
To execute an XPath expression, see
Finding Elements by Absolute Location in a DOM Document Using XPath. Here is the sample XML file
used in the example:
// Get all elements where pet equals cat String xpath = "//*[@pet='cat']"; // 2 // Get all elements where pet equals dog xpath = "//*[@pet='dog']"; // 7 // Note that element #3 does not match because the attribute // value is " dog " rather than "dog" // Get all elements where pet contains the string dog xpath = "//*[contains(@pet,'dog')]"; // 3 7 // Get all elements that have the age attribute xpath = "//*[@age]"; // 3 6 // Get all elem1 elements that have the age attribute xpath = "//elem1[@age]"; // 3 // Get all elements that have both pet and age attributes xpath = "//*[@pet and @age]"; // 1 3
// Get all elements where pet contains the string cat, ignoring case
xpath = "//*[contains(translate(@pet,'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz',"
+ " 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'),'CAT')]"; // 2 4
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root id="1">
<elem1 id="2" pet="cat"/>
<elem1 id="3" pet=" dog " age="8"/>
<elem1 id="4" pet="Cat" >
<elem2 id="5">
<elem3 id="6" age="10"/>
</elem2>
</elem1>
<elem1 id="7" pet="dog"/>
</root>
How can one display the contents of an attribute of a node selected like this?
You can access the contents of an attribute of a node selected like this as follows:
Given the XML from the example, the following will print the "pet" attributes of all :
XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile("/root/elem1");
NodeList elem1List = (NodeList) expr.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.NODESET);
expr = xpath.compile("@pet");
for (int i = 0; i < elem1List.getLength(); i++) {
System.out.println(expr.evaluate(elem1List.item(i), XPathConstants.STRING));
}
In this case all are under . If, e.g., some are under root and others are in other places, and you want to select them all, use "//elem1" instead of "/root/elem1".
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