XPATH problem with dom4j

Question

I am using dom4j to overwrite a value in the XML. The XML looks like this:

Answer 1

The XPath that you are using is looking for a time attribute equal to 555555 on element1. However, your time attributes are on the name nodes.

You could go either the way Tomalak suggested, or change it to:

//element1[../@time='555555']

This is looking for an element1 node with a parent who has a time attribute equal to 555555.