Complex Searching XML

[Corey Vincent]

I'm trying to search something like this:

<main>

<subMain>

<attribute>

<attributeName>Bob</attributeName>

</attribute>

<attributeValue>3</attributeValue>

</subMain>

<subMain>

<attribute>

<attributeName>Sarah</attributeName>

</attribute>

<attributeValue>31</attributeValue>

</subMain>

</main>

Where I want to get the `<attributeValue>` for the `<attributeName>` that is "Sara".

[Mike Dalessio]

Hi Corey,

Can you share what code you've written so far? Generally I've found that the list can be more helpful when we're iterating on an existing, if incomplete, solution, rather than guessing at a complete solution for you.

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[Ryan Rickerts]

Corey,

I have done something like this in XQuery on a native XML database. It looks a bit like this, where your XML is saved as 'sample.xml'. This presumes no namespaces in the file.

let $main:=doc('sample.xml')
let $subMain:=$main/subMain
for $attr in $subMain/
where $attr/attributeName='Sarah'
return $attr/../attributeValue