GATE IT 2007 | Question: 20

Question

Consider the XML document fragment given below:

<Book>
<Title>GATE 2K7 Example<Title>
<Content>
             One of many lines 
</Content>
<TOC>
One of many content entries
</TOC>
</Book>

Consider the XPath expression: *[not (self ) : : TOC]
What would be the result of the given XPath expression when the current node is Book?

• A. The Title and Content elements
• B. The Content and TOC elements
• C. The Title and TOC elements
• D. The Title, Content and TOC elements

Comments

Out of syllabus??

Answer 1

Ans A)

XPath can be used to navigate through elements and attributes in an XML document.

I think *[not(self)::TOC] is not syntactically correct so we might get a syntax error.

It should be *[not(self::TOC)] instead which would select all child elements of the Book element that are not TOC elements so the Title element and the Content element will be selected.