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<?xml version="1.0"?> <tool id="xpath" name="XPath" version="@WRAPPER_VERSION@.0"> <description>compute xpath expressions on XML data</description> <macros> <import>macros.xml</import> </macros> <expand macro="requirements"/> <expand macro="stdio"/> <command interpreter="bash"><![CDATA[xpath -q -e '$expression' $input > $output ]]></command> <inputs> <param name="input" type="data" format="xml" label="Input XML data"/> <param name="expression" type="text" label="XPath Query"> <sanitizer> <valid> <add value="""/> <add value="["/> <add value="]"/> <add value="@"/> </valid> </sanitizer> </param> </inputs> <outputs> <!-- TODO: sometimes there's text output (e.g. text() queries) --> <data format="xml" name="output" label="XPath expression on $input.name"/> </outputs> <tests> <test> <param name="input" value="test.xml"/> <param name="expression" value="//b[@attr="value"]" /> <output name="output" file="1.xml"/> </test> <test> <param name="input" value="test.xml"/> <param name="expression" value="//b[@attr]" /> <output name="output" file="2.xml"/> </test> <test> <param name="input" value="test.xml"/> <param name="expression" value="//b/text()" /> <output name="output" file="3.xml"/> </test> </tests> <help><![CDATA[ **What it does** Query XML files with XPath expressions. For an example input file:: <root> <IdList> <Id>1234</Id> <Id>1235</Id> <Id>1236</Id> <Id>1237</Id> </IdList> </root> One could query out the IDs specifically with a query like:: //Id/text() **XPath Expressions** There are many helpful tutorials on the internet for XPath expressions. `Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPath>`__ has a number of good examples. **Some More Examples** For an XML document like the following:: <root> <a> <b attr="value">1</b> <b attr="none">2</b> <b>3</b> </a> <c> <d>4</d> <e>5</e> </c> </root> Here are some example queries and their outputs: +====================+===================================================+ | Query | Result | +--------------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | //b[@attr="value"] | <b attr="value">1</b> | +--------------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | //b[@attr] | <b attr="value">1</b><b attr="none">2</b> | +--------------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | //b | <b attr="value">1</b><b attr="none">2</b><b>3</b> | +--------------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | //b/text() | 1\n2\n3 | +--------------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | /root/*/*/text() | 1\n2\n3\n4\n5 | +--------------------+---------------------------------------------------+ @ATTRIBUTION@ ]]></help> <citations> </citations> </tool>