facing issue while parsing xml with xpath compile

Question

I have just started learning xml parsing through java. I am stuck with the below issue for a quite some time now and need some help.

I have an xml document which look something like this(just the small representation of a big xml document).

`<shipto>
    <name>Ola Nordmann</name>
    <address>Langgt 23</address>
    <city>4000 Stavanger</city>
    <country>Norway</country>
  </shipto>
  <item id="2">
    <title>Empire Burlesque</title>
    <note>Special Edition</note>
    <quantity>1</quantity>
    <price>10.90</price>
  </item>
  <item>
    <title>Hide your heart</title>
    <quantity>1</quantity>
    <price>9.90</price>
  </item>`

I am trying to find payload when attribute 'id="2"'present.

Below is the regex I am using with xpath compile:

XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile("//*[@id=\\"2\\"]");

The issue: This regular expression gives me

`<item id="2">
    <title>Empire Burlesque</title>
    <note>Special Edition</note>
    <quantity>1</quantity>
    <price>10.90</price>
  </item>`

When I only need :

<title>Empire Burlesque</title> <note>Special Edition</note> <quantity>1</quantity> <price>10.90</price>

How do I achieve this result?

This question can be really silly as I am just trying to learn xml parsing in java. Please help and thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Use this line to get only the subnodes:

XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile("//*[@id=\"2\"]/*");

Result:

<title>Empire Burlesque</title>
<note>Special Edition</note>
<quantity>1</quantity>
<price>10.90</price>

This expression returns all children of all <item> elements with the attribute value @id = 2 .