How to Parse XML
In this article, we'll explain about XML parsing. We'll start by defining XML files, their format and how to navigate them for data extraction.
XPath allows interacting with any element's attribute such as class, id, href and any other through the @ syntax. This means we can select any element in the HTML DOM based on its attribute value with XPath.
To find elements by attribute value, the name of the attribute can be used in [@attribute=value] predicate syntax or using contains() function for a partial match like so: [contains(@attribute, "value")].
Here are some interactive examples to demonstrate this:
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In this article, we'll explain about XML parsing. We'll start by defining XML files, their format and how to navigate them for data extraction.
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