Example XPath 20.2 - //GGG/ancestor-or-self::*

Example XPath 20 - /AAA/XXX/DDD/EEE/ancestor-or-self::*

Example XPath 19 - //CCC/descendant-or-self::*

Example XPath 18 - //GGG/preceding::*

Example XPath 16 - //CCC/preceding-sibling::*

Example XPath 15 - //CCC/following-sibling::*

Example XPath 17 - /AAA/XXX/following::*

Example XPath 16 - /AAA/XXX/preceding-sibling::*

Example XPath 18 - /AAA/XXX/preceding::*

Example XPath 15 - /AAA/BBB/following-sibling::*

Example XPath 14 - //FFF/ancestor::*

Example XPath 2 - //BBB

Example XPath 13 - //DDD/parent::*

XPath Example 2. - /AAA/CCC (Select all elements CCC which are children of the root element AAA)

XPath Example 3. /AAA/DDD/BBB (Select all elements BBB which are children of DDD which are children of the root element AAA)

XPath Example 1. /AAA (Select the root element AAA)

The string-length function returns the number of characters in the string. You must use < as a substitute for < and > as a substitute for > .

Several paths can be combined with | separator.

Function count() counts the number of selected elements.

The basic XPath syntax is similar to filesystem addressing. If the path starts with the slash / , then it represents an absolute path to the required element.