create xpath expression from xml

[Teena George]

Hello everyone,

Can we create an XPath expression from an XML document? my XML document is exactly like this:

  <item>
	<one>true</one>
	<two>10</two>
	<name>name text</name>
</item>
 

I need to create an xpath which shows all of these nodes

Thanks

[Paul Clapham]

XPath expressions don't show anything. They just select nodes. And the XPath expression to select all nodes in a document is this:

//*

Probably that wasn't what you had in mind, though. Could you rephrase your question so that you explain what you want to do?

[Ulf Dittmer]

I think this example from the CodeBarn might help: http://faq.javaranch.com/java/SAXCreateXPath

[Paul Clapham]

Ah... that would be an XPath expression for each of the nodes, not for all of them.

[Teena George]

Thank you all.. Sorry, I got very late to reply.. the link was useful. However, i had got another way to reach my solution. It turned out that i do not need many of the things that come with the xml. So i created an XPath expression to pick up the things i wanted. then i created a parameterized string in the properties file to create the final result, which is again an xpath expression. This requirement was kind of really odd

Thank you

Teena