Given an XML structure like so:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<bookstore>
<book>
<title lang="eng">Harry Potter</title>
<price>29.99</price>
</book>
<book>
<title lang="eng">Learning XML</title>
<price>39.95</price>
</book>
</bookstore>
How could I get the value of lang
(where lang
is eng
in book title), for the first element?
Best Answer
Use:
This means:
Select the
lang
attribute of the title element that is a child of the firstbook
child of the top element of the XML document.To get just the string value of this attribute use the standard XPath function
string()
: