Cisco Cisco Process Orchestrator 2.X User Guide

The following path expressions can be used when selecting nodes in a path expression of a XPath query. 

The following is an example of XML query code. 

For additional examples, see 

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The following are example path expressions and related results based on the 

nodename 

Selects all child nodes of the named node 

/

Selects from the root node 

//

Selects nodes in the document from the current node that 
match the selection no matter where they are located

.

Selects the current node 

..

Selects the parent of the current node

@

Selects attributes

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<bookstore>

<book>

  <title lang="eng">Harry Potter</title>

  <price>29.99</price>

</book>

<book>

  <title lang="eng">Learning XML</title>

  <price>39.95</price>

</book>

</bookstore>

bookstore

Selects all child nodes of the bookstore element 

/bookstore

Selects the root element bookstore

If the path starts with a slash ( / ) it always 
represents an absolute path to an element.

bookstore/book

Selects all book elements that are children of bookstore

//book

Selects all book elements no matter where they are in the 
document