Using XML with XPath

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The question is quite silly, but I am completely stuck. I want to extract child nodes of a node based on a condition. The XML is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<products xmlns="http://xml.netbeans.org/schema/products">
    <product>
        <productID>1</productID>
        <picture>1000</picture>
        <productName>abc</productName>
        <price>400</price>
    </product>
    <product>
        <productID>2</productID>
        <picture>2000</picture>
        <productName>bcd</productName>
        <price>275</price>
    </product>
</products>

I want to use local-name() with contains.

My expression is: //*[local-name()='products' and contains(productName,'a')]

But not working.

Has anyone any idea of what I should do?

eLRuLL · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-28 18:53:40Z

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I assume you want to get the product tag, so this could help:

'//*[local-name()="products"]/*[local-name()="product" and contains(./*[local-name()="productName"], "a")]'

answered Feb 28, 2017 at 18:53

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kjhughes · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-01 04:10:01Z

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I want to use local-name() with contains.

This XPath,

//*[local-name()='productName' and contains(., 'a')]/..

uses local-name() and contains() to select all parent elements of those productName elements whose string value contains an 'a', as requested.

edited Mar 1, 2017 at 4:10

answered Feb 28, 2017 at 21:15

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