Xpath query to get the parent Element text and its child element attribute values?

Question

I have the following XML :

<sample>
  <Message number="2">
  <Title>Program pointer has been reset</Title> 
  <Description>
  The program pointer of task 
  <arg format="%s" ordinal="3" /> 
  has been reset. 
  </Description>
  </Message>
</sample>

I'm trying to get the decription text with arg attribute values. Something like "The program pointer of task %s 3 has been reset."

and my attempt looked something like

'/sample//Message[@number = $mId]/Description'

but that didnt work.

Martin Honnen · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-14 12:43:15Z

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With XPath 2.0 or XQuery 1.0 you could use string-join(/sample//Message[@number = 2]/Description/(text() | */@*), ''). I am not sure whether Python gives you access to an XPath 2.0 or XQuery 1.0 library.

answered Dec 14, 2011 at 12:43

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Ashishkumar Over a year ago

its work........thanx alot man....actually im using pydom xpath 0.1 lib..can you please provide me some links to study more about how to use xpath queries...again thanx for your help..:-)

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