Having the following XML:
<node>Text1<subnode/>text2</node> How do I select either the first or the second text node via XPath?
Something like this:
/node/text()[2] of course doesn't work because it's the merged result of every text inside the node.
Having the following XML:
<node>Text1<subnode/>text2</node>How do I select either the first or the second text node via XPath?
Use:
/node/text() This selects all text-node children of the top element (named "node") of the XML document.
/node/text()[1] This selects the first text-node child of the top element (named "node") of the XML document.
/node/text()[2] This selects the second text-node child of the top element (named "node") of the XML document.
/node/text()[someInteger] This selects the someInteger-th text-node child of the top element (named "node") of the XML document. It is equivalent to the following XPath expression:
/node/text()[position() = someInteger] 
//*[text()] anyway. /html/text() does not work./html/text() doesn't select all text nodes in the document -- only the text nodes that are children (not descendents) of the top, html element. You probably want /html//text() . Some knowledge and understanding of XPath is typically required in order to construct XPath expressions.your xpath should work . i have tested your xpath and mine in both MarkLogic and Zorba Xquery/ Xpath implementation.
Both should work.
/node/child::text()[1] - should return Text1 /node/child::text()[2] - should return text2 /node/text()[1] - should return Text1 /node/text()[2] - should return text2 
/node/text()[2][...] doesn't work because it's the merged result of every text inside the node That's wrong: it means second text node child ofnoderoot element. The string value (concatenation of descendant text nodes) would bestring(/node)