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1. Generation Xpath expression in runtime    stackoverflow.com

I need to generate some kind of a nested Xpath on runtime. Do you know of any Java lib or helper, which can assist with the creation of a complex Xpath expression ...

2. Need some help with XPath expression. One works, the other doesn't    stackoverflow.com

I'm using the COBRA HTMLParser but haven't had luck parsing one particular tag. Here's the source:

<li id="eta" class="hentry">
  <span class="body">
    <span class="actions">
    </span>
  ...

3. Problem with evaluating XPath expression in Java    stackoverflow.com

Can somebody help me find the mistake I am doing in evaluating following XPath expression?
I want to get all "DataTable" nodes under the node "Model" in my xml through XPath.
Here is ...

4. Determine if one XPath expression implies another    stackoverflow.com

How can I programmatically determine if XPath expression A always will match something when XPath expression B matches something, in other words that B implies A? By "matching something" I mean that ...

5. XPath in java won't accept variable in expression    stackoverflow.com

Can someone be kind enough to explain me why
xPath.evaluate("/MEMBER_LIST/MEMBER[1]/ADDRESS", nodeMemberList, XPathConstants.STRING) Returns the value I'm looking for and why xPath.evaluate("/MEMBER_LIST/MEMBER[" + i + "]/ADDRESS", nodeMemberList, ...

6. using conditions in XPath expressions    stackoverflow.com

I need to parse through an XML document in the database and search for a given expression in it. Then, I must return a String value if the given expression is ...

7. Iterate and concat using XPath EXpression    stackoverflow.com

hi everyone i have the following xml file

<author>
<firstname>Akhilesh</firstname>
<lastname>Singh</lastname>
</author>
<author>
<firstname>Prassana</firstname>
<lastname>Nagaraj</lastname>
</author>

concat(author/firstName," ",author/lastName)

8. Is there a single XPath expression I can use to navigate XML in a CDATA section?    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to figure out how to use XPath to get the exceptionID and instrumentID values out of the XML snippet in the following XML document (yes having XML in the ...

9. XPath: generate a relative expression from a root node to a specified node?    stackoverflow.com

How can I generate the required XPath expression to traverse from a given root node to a specified node down the xml structure? I will receive HTML fragment of a table at ...

10. How do I obtain the result of a boolean XPath expression (e.g. 'false')?    stackoverflow.com

I would like to have Java generate a '0' in case an XPath expression evaluates to 'false'. I have this Java code:

//Read the input XML document
private SAXBuilder parser = new SAXBuilder();
  ...

11. XPath expression to verify a NodeList    stackoverflow.com

I have a NodeList in Java and this XML file, (just a part of it) if I have

<Book title="aaa" author="bbb" price="12" year="2011" />

12. Xpath Expression correction    coderanch.com

13. xpath boolean expression question    forums.oracle.com

We are now going beyond my knowledge of XPath but this just seems f ucked. It's returning the correct type (Boolean) but incorrect value. This is the only bug I can find that MAY be related. http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6430295 I'm wondering if one of these: a node-set is true if and only if it is non-empty a string is true if and only ...