Scala: Select following sibling in xml

Question

Is there any way to select following sibling element in xml using Scala?

So if I have xml like this:

<root> <childA>A</childA> <randomElementName>B</randomElementName> </root>

I would like to do selection like this:

(root \ "childA") followingSibling text

that will give me "B"

senia · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-22 04:43:28Z

I guess it's not as elegant as you expected, but it works:

root. child. dropWhile{ _.label != "childA" }. collect{ case e: xml.Elem => e }. drop(1). headOption. map{ _.text } // Option[String] = Some(B)

There is no XPath in scala.xml, so you should work with it as with collection.

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