XPath to select Element by attribute value

Question

I have following XML    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  UTF-8   gt   lt Employees gt       lt Employee id  3  gt           lt age gt 40 lt  age gt           lt name gt Tom lt  name gt           lt gender gt Male lt  gender gt           lt role gt Manager lt  role gt       lt  Employee gt       lt Employee id  4  gt           lt age gt 25 lt  age gt           lt name gt Meghna lt  name gt           lt gender gt Female lt  gender gt           lt role gt Manager lt  role gt       lt  Employee gt   lt  Employees gt    I want to select Employee element with id  4    I am using below XPath expression which is not returning anything     Employee   id  4   text     I checked it at http   chris photobooks com xml default htm and it says invalid xpath  not sure where is the issue

User · Accepted Answer

You need to remove the   before the    Predicates  the parts in      shouldn t have slashes immediately before them   Also  to select the Employee element itself  you should leave off the  text   at the end or otherwise you d just be selecting the whitespace text values immediately under the Employee element     Employee  id  4     Edit  As Jens points out in the comments     can be very slow because it searches the entire document for matching nodes  If the structure of the documents you re working with is going to be consistent  you are probably best off using a full path  for example    Employees Employee  id  4

User · Answer

Try doing this     Employees Employee  id 4    text

User · Answer

As a follow on  you could select  all nodes with a particular attribute  like this        id  4

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