XPath

External

• https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/NSXML_Concepts/Articles/QueryingXML.html
• https://www.baeldung.com/linux/evaluate-xpath

Internal

• XML
• XSL

Overview

XPath is a specification language that allows specifying parts of an XML structure. It is part of XSL. An XPath expression can be thought as an address of a part of an XML document.

NEXT: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/jaxp/xslt/xpath.html

Command Line Tooling

• xmllint
• XMLStarlet
• xidel
• xpath

Java Support

https://www.baeldung.com/java-xpath

Syntax

Full Path:

//element-name/element-name[index]/element-name[@attribute-name='value']

Recursive query based on element name:

//element-name[@attribute-name='value']

//element-name[sub-element-expression]