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GPath is a path expression language we've integrated into Groovy which is similar in aims and scope as XPath is to XML.
1. Expression language for tree structured data
2. Implementations for XML
3. Can specify a path to an element
a.b.c -> all the <c> elements inside <b> inside <a>
4. Can specify attributes
a"@href" -> the href attribute of all the a elements
Example
The best example of GPath for xml is test-new/groovy/util/XmlSlurperTest.groovy.
Outline
1.Accessing element as property
2.Accessing attributes
3.Accessing element body
If the element is a father node,it will print all children's text.
3.Explore the DOM use children() and parent()
but the parent() is not implement in current version XmlSlurper.java, i had upload an attachement to patch it.
4.Find elements use expression
References
Getting Groovy with XML by Jack Herrington.
See some examples.
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