XPath and TXmlDocument
XML example, from the OmniXML XPath demo:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<bookstore>
<book>
<title lang="eng">Harry Potter</title>
</book>
<book>
<title lang="eng">Learning XML</title>
</book>
<book>
<title lang="slo">Z OmniXML v lepso prihodnost</title>
<year>2006</year>
</book>
<book>
<title>Kwe sona standwa sam</title>
</book>
</bookstore>
Try something like this:
uses
XMLDoc, XMLDom, XMLIntf;
// From a post in Embarcadero's Delphi XML forum.
function selectNode(xnRoot: IXmlNode;const nodePath: WideString): IXmlNode;
var
intfSelect : IDomNodeSelect;
dnResult : IDomNode;
intfDocAccess : IXmlDocumentAccess;
doc: TXmlDocument;
begin
Result :=nil;
if not Assigned(xnRoot)or not Supports(xnRoot.DOMNode, IDomNodeSelect, intfSelect) then
Exit;
dnResult := intfSelect.selectNode(nodePath);
if Assigned(dnResult) then
begin
if Supports(xnRoot.OwnerDocument, IXmlDocumentAccess, intfDocAccess) then
doc := intfDocAccess.DocumentObject
else
doc :=nil;
Result := TXmlNode.Create(dnResult,nil, doc);
end;
end;
var
IDoc: IXMLDocument;
INode: IXMLNode;
begin
IDoc := LoadXMLDocument('.\books.xml');
INode := SelectNode(IDoc.DocumentElement,'/bookstore/book[2]/title');
end;
//================================================================================
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
noderef:IXMLDOMNodeRef;
root:IXMLDOMNode;
Node:IXMLDOMNode;
begin
XMLDocument1.Active:=true;
noderef:=XMLDocument1.DocumentElement.DOMNode as IXMLDOMNodeRef;
root:=noderef.GetXMLDOMNode;
node:=root.selectSingleNode('node1/node2/node3/node4');
if Assigned(node) then
begin
ShowMessage(node.attributes.getnameditem('title').text);
end;
end;