Matching a node based on a sibling's value with XPath
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Solution 1
Found it:
/records/record/name[../record-type/text() = "A"]
Solution 2
Surprisingly, none of the answers to date on this old question provide the simplest XPath solution.
This simple XPath
/records/record[record-type = "A"]/name
selects
<name>svn</name>
<name>blog</name>
as requested.
Solution 3
You can also filter a parent element by its children :
/records/record[record-type[text()='A']]/name
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Updated on September 14, 2020Comments
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Einstein almost 4 years
Having a XML document like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <records type="array"> <record> <name>svn</name> <record-type>A</record-type> <ttl type="integer">86400</ttl> <zone-id type="integer">69075</zone-id> <aux type="integer">0</aux> <id type="integer">xxx</id> <active>Y</active> <data>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</data> </record> <record> <name>domain.tld.</name> <record-type>NS</record-type> <ttl type="integer">86400</ttl> <zone-id type="integer">xxx</zone-id> <aux type="integer">0</aux> <id type="integer">xxx</id> <active>Y</active> <data>domain.tld.</data> </record> <record> <name>blog</name> <record-type>A</record-type> <ttl type="integer">86400</ttl> <zone-id type="integer">xxx</zone-id> <aux type="integer">0</aux> <id type="integer">xxx</id> <active>Y</active> <data>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</data> </record> </records>
How to match all the
/records/record/name
having as sibling/records/record/record-type
with the valueA
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kjhughes about 9 years
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kjhughes about 9 yearsIt's simpler and clearer to test
record-type
directly without an additional predicate.