Get nodes where child node contains an attribute

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Try

//book[title/@lang = 'it']

This reads:

  • get all book elements
    • that have at least one title
      • which has an attribute lang
        • with a value of "it"

You may find this helpful — it’s an article entitled “XPath in Five Paragraphs” by Ronald Bourret.

But in all honesty, //book[title[@lang='it']] and the above should be equivalent, unless your XPath engine has “issues.” So it could be something in the code or sample XML that you’re not showing us — for example, your sample is an XML fragment. Could it be that the root element has a namespace, and you aren’t counting for that in your query? And you only told us that it didn’t work, but you didn’t tell us what results you did get.

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