Question

Lets say we have the following XML:

<root>
    <sub>
        <id>1</id>
        <values>
            <value>1</value>
            <value>2</value>
        </values>
    </sub>
    <sub>
        <id>2</id>
        <values>
            <value>16</value>
            <value>15</value> 
        </values>
    </sub>
</root>

What I want to with Apache Commons Configuration: I want to get all values for sub with id2. How could I achieve that? I find nothing in the documentation, how I can query with a dynamic hierarchy number.

Answer 1

You can use XPath:

//sub[id = 2]/values/value