Xpath - sinsunsan/archiref_wiki GitHub Wiki

Is a selection language, like jquery in javascript. Works with xml documents and a subset of xml which are html docs

Could try with this xml feeds of events in the region Auvergne
http://www.letransfo.fr/layout/set/xml/agenda/view/xml/1

Basics

http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/

• all is nodes with parents / childs relation ships http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_nodes.asp

• Selection syntax http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_syntax.asp

Exemples

• Select all the titles, as we don't suffix items with nothing to select all the "titre" node we need to write all its parents
  items/item/titre

• If we want to select a node by its name, whichever be its position in the document, we use //
  //titre