Cisco Cisco Process Orchestrator 3.1 User Guide

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

The following is an example of source XML.

The following example path expressions and related results are based on the preceding source XML. 

For additional examples, see 

.

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

.

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 

bookstore//book 

Selects all book elements that are descendant of the 
bookstore element, no matter where they are under the 
bookstore element 

//@lang

Selects all attributes that are named lang