Some XPath examples

These examples illustrate some potentially useful applications of the Select XPath feature (under the Edit menu) in Arboreal, when working with Archimedes Project texts.

Find all heads:

• //p[@type='head']//s[1]

Find all figures in the third chapter:

• //chap[3]//figure

Find the sixth and seventh sentences in each paragraph:

• //p/s[position()>=6 and position()<=7]

Select all paragraphs containing three sentences:

• //p[count(.//s)=3]/descendant-or-self::*

Select all figures with no place attribute:

• //figure[not(@place)]

Select all elements with more than three attributes:

• //*[count(@*)>=3]