• Functions
• for a complete list, see functions
• variable examples

• Predicates
• Functions in the [] square brackets
• = (EQUALS)
• element=
• child::chapter[child::chapterAuthor="Andrew Watt"] (This one is looking for an element named "chapterAuthor", not an attribute)
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• attribute=
• child::chapter[attribute::title="XPATH"]
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• =first()
• =last()
• !- (NOT EQUAL)
• not equal to
• and
• element
• child::*[self::chapter and self::appendix](This will choose the <chapter> and <appendix> element children of our context node, whichever shows up first
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• attribute
• chapter[@number and @title] (selects only <chapter> children of the context node that have both a number attribute and a title attribute)
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• or (OR | )
• child::*[self::chapter or self::appendix][position()=last()] (This will choose either the <chapter> or <appendix> element children of our context node, whichever shows up first
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• position() is the default function
• Unabbreviated functions (just the number listed):
• child::paragraph[position()=1]
• child::paragraph[position()=last()>1]
• child::chapter[position()=3][attribute::number] (choose the third <chapter> element that is a child of our context node. If it has an attribute named number, we will use it).
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• Abbreviated functions (just the number listed):
• paragraph[1] (gets the first <paragraph> child element of the context node)
• /book/chapters/chapter[2][@security='confidential'] (selects the fourth <paragraph> child of the context node if it has a security attribute equal to "confidential"
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• /book/chapters/chapter/section[1]/paragraph[3] (selects the third child <paragraph> element of the first <section> element node that is a child of the <chapter> element)
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• NodeTests
• position()
• default nodetest
• //paragraph[1] (selects all descendant <paragraph> elements that are the first <paragraph> children of their parents)
• *
• * (selects all element nodes that are children of the context node)
• */paragraph (gets all grandchildren <paragraph> element nodes of the context node) (equivalent to child::*/child::paragraph)
• node()
• /child::node() also gets the comment node
• text()
• text() (selects the text node of the context node)
• count()
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• name()
• returns name of the node, if applied to a node-set, node parameter can identify the node reequired. If more than one matches, you need a loop
• substring-after (.,' ')
• returns the next word after the first space
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