xml - How to get attribute value using XPath in Java?

Question

I have below XML to parse using XPath:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<schema>
  <element name="name_ele1" id="name_id_1" >test name1</element>
  <element name="name_ele2" id="name_id_2" >test name2</element>
  <element name="name_ele2" id="name_id_3" >test name3</element>
</schema>

I want to fetch "name" from the xml document based upon the Id I have passed but I am not able to get the required data instead query is returning blank.

XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile("/schema/element[@id='name_id_2']/name/text()");

Answer 1

Like this:

XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile("/schema/element[@id='name_id_2']/@name");

Your expression attempts to select the text inside the name element, instead of the value of the name attribute.