XPath selecting same level node with different name

Question

I'm making different selection on this XML, but for most of them i'm not sure that i done the simplest solution, and for 2 of them i'm not able to provide a working solution.

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE list[
<!ELEMENT list(man|woman)*>
<!ELEMENT man(sons,daughters)>
<!ATTLIST man name CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ELEMENT man(sons,daughters)>
<!ATTLIST woman name CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ELEMENT sons(man)*>
<!ELEMENT daughters(woman)*>

<list>
    <man name="Jean-Bernard">
        <sons>
            <man name="Marc-Antoine"/>
        </sons>
        <daughters>
            <woman name="Marie-Jeanne">
                <sons/>
                <daughters>
                    <woman name="Anne-Sophie"/>
                </daughters>
            </woman>
            <woman name="Rose-Marie">
                <daughters>
                    <woman name="Marie-Cécile"/>
                </daughters>
            </woman>
        </daughters>
    </man>
    <woman name="Marie-Jeanne">
        <sons>
            <man name="Ghislain-Auguste">
                <sons/>
            </man>  
        </sons>
        <daughters>
            <woman name="Rita-Lise">
            <sons>
                <man name="Alain-Luc"/>
                <man name="Jules-Edouard"/>
            </sons>
            </woman>
        </daughters>
    </woman>
</list>

What i have done :

Selecting all women : //woman
Selecting all women with the name "Marie Jeanne" : //woman[@name='Marie-Jeanne']
Selecting all woman with a name which contains "Marie" : //woman[contains(@name,Marie)]

What i have done but this is not exact or i think it can be better :

Selecting all women or men who have at least 2 children : //*[sum(count(sons/man), count(daughters/woman)) >= 2]
Selecting all women or men who are grandparents : i'm totally stuck for this one i can't see how i can select with so much unknown. In my mind this is like that : //*/*/*/* . . . i don't understand how to start.

Kirill Polishchuk · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-23T01:58:05.547

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Selecting all women or men who have at least 2 children:

//*[(self::man or self::woman) and count(*/*) > 1]

Selecting all women or men who are grandparents

//*[(self::man or self::woman) and */*/*/*]

edited Jan 23 '13 at 01:58

answered Jan 23 '13 at 01:52

Kirill Polishchuk

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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To make it easier to select all women or men who are grandparents you could use the "self" declarative XPath to select multiple tags:

//*[count(*[self::sons or self::daughters]/*[self::man or self::woman]/*[self::sons or self::daughters]/*[self::man or self::woman]) >= 1]

edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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answered Jan 22 '13 at 22:52

Justin Bicknell

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XPath selecting same level node with different name

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