How to find element by attribute value in GPath?

Question

What is an alternative to this XPath //div[@id=\'foo\'] in GPath? In general, where I can find this documentation?

Answer 1

To mimic the expression //div[@id='foo'] the closest thing you can do with a GPath is:

def xml = new XmlParser().parseText(text)
xml.'**'.div.findAll { it.@id=="foo" }

the '**' is pretty much the same as '//' in your XPath.

xml.'**'.div

will yield all the nodes of type div at any level.

Later filtering with findAll() with the given closure you get a list of nodes as you do in the XPath case