[MarkLogic Dev General] Search XML files by an Attribute

[G. Ken Holman]

At 2009-10-12 21:11 +0530, Jamin wrote:
>I would like to search an XML file by an Attribute of an element and 
>the result I get should be the element and its contents only.
>For e.g.:
>File : My.xml
><bookstore>
>                 <book lang="English">Learning XQuery </book>
>                 <book lang="French">French Culture</book>
>                 <book lang="Italian">Italian Food</book>
></bookstore>
>
>Now when I search for attribute "English"  the result I get should 
>be like this

You don't mention that the name of the element is important to 
you.  I realize in your simple example there are only "book" 
elements, but you are asking for a search only based on the attribute's value.

>"<book lang="English">Learning XQuery </book>" only and not the 
>entire XML file.

This finds all elements of any name that have a lang= attribute of "English":

   //*[@lang='English']

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . Ken


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