I have an XML from which I have to select the name of the child of one of the nodes. I\'m kind of a beginner in this, so I didn\'t find the Xpath expression to do it. I know the
You wrote:
I have to select the first child of Department node
You could use:
/Employee/Department/*[1]
Then, you also wrote:
I have an XML from which I have to select the name of the child of one of the nodes
So, you could use:
name(/Employee/Department/*[1])
I don't know the exact context of your XML, but I believe this is the XPath you are looking for...
/Employee/Department/*[1]
The key part of this XPath is *[1]
, which will select the node value of the first child of Department
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If you need the name of the node, then you will want to use this...
name(/Employee/Department/*[1])
You need something like:
local-name(/Employee/Department/*[1])