Finding the XPATH attribute value using the last() predicate

Asked Apr 06 '15 at 20:16

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<Bookstore>
  <Book>
     <title lang = "en" cover = "hard"> HP </title>
     <title lang = "en" cover = "soft"> HM </title>
  <Book>
<Bookstore>

How to get value of the attribute "cover" using the last() predicate? The XPath specification allows "predicates" to be used in XPath statements. For example, the last() predicate will select the last value from a group/list of values.

I tried using /Bookstore/Book/title[last()]/@cover. But I get error that this XPATH cannot parse XPaths which contain XPath predicate last(). Where am I going wrong?

Thanks!

edited Apr 06 '15 at 20:25

asked Apr 06 '15 at 20:16

SEgeek

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`/Bookstore/Book/title[last()]/@cover` looks legitimate and works for me (used `xmllint`). – alecxe Apr 06 '15 at 20:25
Okay. Looks like my parsing logic in my code is faulty! Thanks. – SEgeek Apr 06 '15 at 20:34

Finding the XPATH attribute value using the last() predicate

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