Xpath Locators

Question 1

Xpath uses path expressions to…

Answer 1

identify and navigate nodes in an XML document.

Question 2

xpath expressions are related to…

Answer 2

path expressions in traditional computer file system.

Question 3

Xpath predicates

Answer 3

Are used to find a specific element or an element that contains a specific value.

Question 4

Xpath wildcards

Answer 4

Can be used to select XML nodes based on a specified criteria.

Question 5

Path Expression: TheNode

Answer 5

Selects all elements with name “TheNode”

Question 6

Path Expression: /

Answer 6

Selects the root element.

Question 7

Path Expression: //

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Returns descendants of the current element.

Question 8

Path Expression: .

Answer 8

Returns the current element.

Question 9

Path Expression: ..

Answer 9

Selects the parent of the current element.

Question 10

Path Expression: @

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Selects an attribute of the current element.

Question 11

Xpath wildcard: *

Answer 11

Matches any element node.

Question 12

Xpath wildcard: @*

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Matches any attribute node.

Question 13

Xpath wildcard: Node()

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Matches any node of any kind.

Question 14

XPATH EXPRESSION: Magazines

Answer 14

Selects all nodes with the name “Magazines”

Question 15

XPATH EXPRESSION: /Magazines

Answer 15

Selects the root element “Magazines”

Question 16

XPATH EXPRESSION:Magazines/Magazine

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Selects all Magazine elements of Magazines

Question 17

XPATH EXPRESSION://Magazines

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Selects all Magazine elements in the document

Question 18

PATH EXPRESSION:Magazines//Magazine

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Selects all Magazine elements that are descendants of Magazines

Question 19

XPATH EXPRESSION://@lang

Answer 19

Selects all attributes named lang

Question 20

XPATH EXPRESSION:Selects the first Magazine element

Answer 20

/Magazines/Magazine[1]

Question 21

XPATH EXPRESSION:/Magazines/Magazine[last()]

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Selects the last child Magazine element

Question 22

XPATH EXPRESSION:/Magazines/Magazine[last()-1]

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Selects the second to last Magazine element

Question 23

XPATH EXPRESSION://title[@lang]

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Selects all title elements with attribute “lang”

Question 24

XPATH EXPRESSION://title[@lang=’en’]

Answer 24

Selects all title elements with attribute lang=en

Question 25

XPATH OPERATOR: //Magazine | //CD

Answer 25

Selects multiple paths

Question 26

XPATH OPERATOR: price>3.00 or lang=”en”

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or Or

Question 27

XPATH OPERATOR: price>3.00 and lang=”en”

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and And

Question 28

XPATH OPERATOR: not lang=”en”

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not Invert

Question 29

XPATH OPERATOR: “en” || “glish”

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|| String concatenation

Question 30

XPATH FUNCTION: string(arg)

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Returns string value of the argument

Question 31

XPATH FUNCTION: substring(str, start, len)

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Returns a substring of a string of length “len” starting at “start”

Question 32

XPATH FUNCTION:string-length(str)

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Returns the length of the string. If there is no argument passed in, returns length of current node

Question 33

XPATH FUNCTION:compare(str1, str2)

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Returns -1 if str1 < str2, 0 if strings are equal, +1 if str1 > Str2

Question 34

XPATH FUNCTION:concat(str1, str2, …)

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Returns a concatenation of all strings inputted

Question 35

XPATH FUNCTION:upper-case(str)

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inputted upper-case(str)

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XPATH FUNCTION:lower-case(str)

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Converts the string argument to lower case

Question 37

XPATH FUNCTION:contains(str1, str2)

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Returns TRUE if str1 contains str2

Question 38

XPATH FUNCTION:starts-with(str1, str2)

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Returns TRUE if str1 starts with str2

Question 39

XPATH FUNCTION: ends-with(str1, str2)

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Returns TRUE if str1 ends with str2

Question 40

XPATH OPERATOR:div Division

Answer 40

14 div 2

Question 41

XPATH OPERATOR:mod Modulus (remainder after division)

Answer 41

7 mod 3

Question 42

XPATH OPERATOR: