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.
To select elements by class value the .
symbol + value can be used. For example, .product
would select any element that contains product
in the class
attribute:
Note that this selector matches any element that contains a class value in the class list (separated by spaces).
To match elements that contain the exact class value the predicate syntax can be used:
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