[XML4Lib] needed: 1 xpath expression

Jon Gorman jonathan.gorman at gmail.com
Wed May 21 15:44:13 EDT 2008


/find-doc/record/metadata/oai_marc/varfield[@id='100']/subfield[@label='a']?
or is there something I'm missing here?

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan at nd.edu> wrote:
>
> Needed: 1 XPath expression
>
> Given the following XML snippet, how can I extract the value of the 100
> field, subfield a:
>
> <find-doc>
>  <record>
>  <metadata>
>   <oai_marc>
>    <varfield id="090" i1="" i2="">
>     <subfield label="a">ND497.H678</subfield>
>     <subfield label="b">M786</subfield>
>    </varfield>
>    <varfield id="100" i1="1" i2="0">
>     <subfield label="a">Moore, Robert Etheridge,</subfield>
>     <subfield label="d">1920-</subfield>
>    </varfield>
>    <varfield id="245" i1="1" i2="0">
>     <subfield label="a">Hogarth's literary relationships.</subfield>
>    </varfield>
>   </oai_marc>
>  </metadata>
>  </record>
> </find-doc>
>
> I'd be willing to bet there is a one-liner lurking somewhere here.
>
> --
> Eric Lease Morgan
> Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame
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