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supposing i have the following xml document: <head>
<book>
<bookname>zio</bookname>
<author>dan</author>
</book>
<book>
<bookname>the spear warrior</bookname>
<author>britney</author>
</book>
<book>
<bookname>the beard</bookname>
<author>derrick</author>
</book>
</head>
i want to search for the author of the book "the beard" using for example the V.I Get first match of labview to access the the node with value "the beard" and then use Get next sibling V.I and Get node text content to get get the author of this book..so my question is how do i write the xpath expression for Get first match so as to access the node with bookname "the beard" instantyly? am trying to minimise the use of loops because they increase the time duration,..thank you (NB:i dont want to use Get all Matched V.I because it obliges me to use a loop in order to access the name derrick and this increases the time duration for my v.i)
Since it's all text, why not use a real quick Match Pattern (or Regular Expression, but you don't need that much power here), see attached.
Cameron
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thank you very much sir,it works right now..i was mainly interested in the part //*[bookname='the beard']/./author and using that in my v.i it works right!! thank very much again
supposing i had the string below,how will the part //*[bookname='the beard']//author modify ?in this case there is a possibility of having more than one head...please explain your reply a little bit..
