[SoapUI] Common XPath Expressions

Select a node

expression	description
nodename	Select all child nodes of this node.
/	from the root node Select.
//	from matching Select the current node to select the nodes in the document, regardless of their location.
	Select the current node.
:	Select the parent node of the current node.
@	select Properties 。

Examples　　　　　　

Path Expression	Results
Bookstore	Selects all child nodes of the bookstore element.
/bookstore	Select the root element bookstore. Note: If the path starts with a forward slash (/), this path always represents the absolute path to an element!
Bookstore/book	Selects all book elements that belong to a child element of bookstore.
Book	Selects all book child elements, regardless of their position in the document.
Bookstore//book	Selects all book elements that belong to descendants of the bookstore element, regardless of where they are located under bookstore.
@lang	Select all attributes that are named Lang.

Path Expression	Results
/BOOKSTORE/BOOK[1]	Selects the first book element that belongs to a bookstore child element.
/bookstore/book[last ()]	Select the last book element that belongs to the bookstore child element.
/bookstore/book[last ()-1]	Select the second-to-last book element that belongs to the bookstore child element.
/bookstore/book[position () <3]	Select the first two book element that belongs to the child element of the bookstore element.
title[@lang]	Select all the title elements that have properties named Lang.
title[@lang = ' Eng ']	Selects all title elements, and these elements have the lang attribute value of Eng.
/BOOKSTORE/BOOK[PRICE>35.00]	Selects all the book elements of the bookstore element, and the value of the price element must be greater than 35.00.
/bookstore/book[price>35.00]/title	Selects all the title elements of the book element in the bookstore element, and the value of the price element must be greater than 35.00.

Select Unknown node

XPath wildcard characters can be used to select unknown XML elements.

wildcard characters	Description
*	Matches any element node.
@*	matches any attribute node.
Node ()	Matches any type of node.

Examples

Path Expression	Results
/bookstore/*	Selects all child elements of the bookstore element.
//*	Selects all elements in the document.
Title[@*]	Select all the title elements with attributes.

Select several paths

By using the ' | ' in a path expression operator, you can select a number of paths.

Instance

In the table below, we list some path expressions and the results of these expressions:

Path Expression	Results
Book/title | Book/price	Selects all the title and price elements of the book element.
Title | Price	Selects all the title and price elements in the document.
/bookstore/book/title | Price	Selects all the title elements of the book element that belong to the bookstore element, and all the price elements in the document.

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[SoapUI] Common XPath Expressions