Here is the code to get all XPath trees of all elements of given XML document. You can easily change the code to get a single node’s XPath.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="text"/> <xsl:template match="*" mode="get-xpath"> <xsl:apply-templates select="parent::*" mode="get-xpath"/> <xsl:text>/</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="name()"/> <xsl:if test="../*[2]"> <xsl:text>[</xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="1+count(preceding-sibling::*[name(.)=name(current())])"/> <xsl:text>]</xsl:text> </xsl:if> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="@*" mode="get-xpath"> <xsl:apply-templates select="parent::*" mode="get-xpath"/> <xsl:text>/@</xsl:text> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="namespace-uri() = ''"> <xsl:value-of select="name()"/> <!--<xsl:text> = <xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:text>--> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <xsl:text>*[local-name()='</xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="local-name()"/> <xsl:text>' and namespace-uri()='</xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="namespace-uri()"/> <xsl:text>']</xsl:text> <!--<xsl:text> = <xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:text>--> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:for-each select="//*|//*/@*"> <xsl:apply-templates mode="get-xpath" select="."/><xsl:text> </xsl:text> </xsl:for-each> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> |
If you try to transform this example XML document …
?Download example.xml
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <books> <book isbn="0130353132"> <title>Thinking in C++, Volume 2: Practical Programming</title> <author>Bruce Eckel</author> <pages>832</pages> </book> <book isbn="0385504225"> <title>The Lost Symbol</title> <author>Dan Brown</author> <pages>528</pages> </book> <book isbn="0307454541"> <title>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo</title> <author>Stieg Larsson</author> <pages>608</pages> </book> </books> |
.. you’ll got all expanded tree of XPaths (as expected 
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 | /books /books/book[1] /books/book[1]/@isbn /books/book[1]/title[1] /books/book[1]/author[1] /books/book[1]/pages[1] /books/book[2] /books/book[2]/@isbn /books/book[2]/title[1] /books/book[2]/author[1] /books/book[2]/pages[1] /books/book[3] /books/book[3]/@isbn /books/book[3]/title[1] /books/book[3]/author[1] /books/book[3]/pages[1] |
