XPath Nodes
In XPath, there are seven kinds of nodes: element, attribute,
text, namespace, processing-instruction, comment, and document (root) nodes.
XPath Terminology
Nodes
In XPath, there are seven kinds of nodes: element,
attribute, text, namespace, processing-instruction, comment, and document (root) nodes.
XML documents are treated as trees of nodes. The root of the tree is called
the document node (or root node).
Look at the following XML document:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<bookstore>
<book>
<title lang="en">Harry Potter</title>
<author>J K. Rowling</author>
<year>2005</year>
<price>29.99</price>
</book>
</bookstore>
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Example of nodes in the XML document above:
<bookstore> (document node)
<author>J K. Rowling</author> (element node)
lang="en" (attribute node)
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Atomic values
Atomic values are nodes with no children or parent.
Example of atomic values:
Items
Items are atomic values or nodes.
Relationship of Nodes
Parent
Each element and attribute has one parent.
In the following example; the book element is the parent of the title, author, year, and price:
<book>
<title>Harry Potter</title>
<author>J K. Rowling</author>
<year>2005</year>
<price>29.99</price>
</book>
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Children
Element nodes may have zero, one or more children.
In the following example; the title, author, year, and price elements are all
children of the book element:
<book>
<title>Harry Potter</title>
<author>J K. Rowling</author>
<year>2005</year>
<price>29.99</price>
</book>
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Siblings
Nodes that have the same parent.
In the following example; the title, author, year, and price elements are all
siblings:
<book>
<title>Harry Potter</title>
<author>J K. Rowling</author>
<year>2005</year>
<price>29.99</price>
</book>
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Ancestors
A node's parent, parent's parent, etc.
In the following example; the ancestors of the title element are the book element
and the bookstore element:
<bookstore>
<book>
<title>Harry Potter</title>
<author>J K. Rowling</author>
<year>2005</year>
<price>29.99</price>
</book>
</bookstore>
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Descendants
A node's children, children's children, etc.
In the following example; descendants of the bookstore element are the book,
title, author, year, and price elements:
<bookstore>
<book>
<title>Harry Potter</title>
<author>J K. Rowling</author>
<year>2005</year>
<price>29.99</price>
</book>
</bookstore>
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