XPath question 1

[satellite03]

<?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>

what are the meaning of XPath axis like

child::book -->Selects all book nodes that are children of the current node

means ? according to this example what would be the output ?......this "child" keyword is painfull!!!

attribute::lang-->Selects the lang attribute of the current node

means ? according to this example what would be the output ?

 

[JontyMC]

Depends what the current (context) node is.

This tutorial is clearer:

http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XPathTutorial/General/examples.html

Jon

"There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't.

 

[satellite03]

Sir, i have a got a hope to learn XML ,XPath etc after your answers. i browsed a lot..but never got this tutorial through google....its very good sir. i see you are XML guru.

thank you very much sir