Question

This is an xpath question,
I xml file that looks likes this there are several of these artists in the xml.

  <lib>
   <artist>
         <name>Katy Perry</name>
         <album>
           <name>The Official Uk Top 40 Singles Chart 27-05-2012</name>
           <file>
             <name>37 Katy Perry - Part Of Me.mp3</name>
           </file>
        </album>
        <album>
           <name>Album name 2</name>
           <file>
             <name>whatever.mp3</name>
           </file>
        </album>
   </artist>
   ...
 </lib>

How can I get all the albums of the artist given an artist name using an XPath ??

Answer 1

It would be like this:

/lib/artist[name = 'Katy Perry']/album

Does that work for what you’re trying to do?

To account for leading or trailing space, or unexpected space between the words, you should be able to do the following:

/lib/artist[normalize-space(name) = 'Katy Perry']/album