Question

hi i need help to extract information from XML with xpath.

I will use Xpath to extract the value of the attribute of one Tag that start with a generic keywork:

<st:Testprova id='abcd'>
  ....
</st>

  or

<st:Test1prova id='defg'>
  ....
</st>

I used that Xpath expression:

"//*[contains(.,'prova')]/@ID"

but does not work. Can you help me??

Answer 1

You are using @ID instead of @id, this is case sensitive. Besides, you should use name() to retrieve the node-name.

This XPath expression

//*[contains(name(),'prova')]/@id

returns abcd and defg

Although your XML is not correct, it should be:

<st:Testprova id='abcd'>
  ....
</st:Testprova>
<st:Test1prova id='defg'>
  ....
</st:Test1prova>