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What XPath Expression Will Retrieve Only Terminal Child Elements?

April 26, 2017child elements expression terminal xpath

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What XPath Expression Will Retrieve Only Terminal Child Elements?

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Question Can you tell me what XPath expression I should use to retrieve only terminal child elements (that is, elements which don’t have any child elements) from a specified element. For example, I want to use an XPath expression to return only the TABLE child elements highlighted in red below:

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Answer 1 A possible solution is the following:

Answer 2 The expression you want is: /TABLE/*[count(child::*) = 0] or /TABLE/*[not (child::*)] You can omit the child axis, so above expression is the same as: /TABLE/*[count(*) = 0] or /TABLE/*[not (*)] Child Att