Questions tagged [descendant-or-self]
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XQuery: // vs descendant-or-self::node()
Recently I needed to evaluate an XQuery on the Node of an HTML document. Basically, I needed to select all elements with an href attribute from the first child of the body element. I've added a slight example to explain:
RDM
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Weird behaviour of Java XPath resolver for documents with namespaces
I need to query XML documents using XPath expressions in a Java application. I have created the following class, which accepts a file (location of the XML document on a local hard drive) and an XPath query, and should return the result of evaluating…
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xpath descendant and descendant-or-self work completely different
I try to find all seconds tds among the descendants of div with the specified id, i.e. 22 and 222. The first solution that comes to my mind was:
//div[@id='indicator']//td[2]
but it selects only the first table cell, i.e. 22 but not both 22 and…
Anton Kolokolcev
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