quick Xpath question please

[Kathy Burke]

I'm trying to figure out how to do an xpath that simply looks for a
unique attribute name.

For example, select the node where the name attribute is
"test1"...regardless of which element. It would point to either of the
following -- depending on which one had the attribute name (which will
always be unique).

//Base/Station/Measure[@name='test1']
//Base/Station/Measure/Data[@name='test1']

Thanks.
Kathy

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[Matthew Goldberg [MSFT]]

Hi Kathy,
If you use an asterisk * then it will match to any node. If you use
double slash // then it will match to any depth. So the following XPath
will find any node at any depth with the name attribute you want.

//*[@name='test']
Hope that helps,
Matthew

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I'm trying to figure out how to do an xpath that simply looks for a
unique attribute name.

For example, select the node where the name attribute is
"test1"...regardless of which element. It would point to either of the
following -- depending on which one had the attribute name (which will
always be unique).

//Base/Station/Measure[@name='test1']
//Base/Station/Measure/Data[@name='test1']

Thanks.
Kathy

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