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Overview

The wiki discusses upon the enhancement of xpath-capabilities for searching specific elements via CPS-core API and basically to:

• provide possibility to run xpath-searches over multiple anchors and dataspacesprovide possibilites to search for specific ranges, operators <>, regex ...

which can be included in future releases.The second part of this wiki discusses some inconsistencies noticed with the response codes returned by CPS core API's. and how it can be improved.

Cps Xpath Possibilities

Jira : CPS-

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 1.Using >,< operators

NOTE: We can add limit to above examples as a query parameter

 2.Using Contains function

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3.Using OR & AND functions

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Example	Description
//books[@title='The Golden compass' or @lang='english']	In OR expression, two conditions are used, whether 1st condition OR 2nd condition should be true. It is also applicable if any one condition is true or maybe both. Means any one condition should be true to find the element. In

the below

this XPath expression, it identifies the elements whose single or both conditions are true.

/bookstore

/

book

/books[@title='The Golden compass'

or

and @lang='english']

 

In AND expression, two conditions are used, both conditions should be true to find the element. It fails to find element if any one condition is false

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 /bookstore/book/[@title='The Golden compass' and @lang='english'] 

• Xpath expression finds values contains barnes and title the lemon table

/bookstore /book[@author contains("Philip Pullman") and @title = "The Golden compass "]

/bookstore /book[@author  contains("Iain M

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Banks") and (@title  contains("Far Horizons") or @title  contains("Feersum Endjinn "))] 

 4.Using starts-with/Ends-with function

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Example	Description
/bookstore/book[starts-with

function

(@code,'sid')]

For example -: Suppose the ID of particular element changes dynamically like: Code = “sid1” Code = “sid2” Code = “sid3” Code = “sid4” Code = “sid5”

/bookstore/book[starts-with(@code,'sid')]

Here, XPath finds those element whose ‘Code’ starting with ‘sid’.

similarly,

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Example	Description
/bookstore/book[ends-with(@code,'sid')]	For example -: Suppose the ID of particular element changes dynamically like:

                           

Code = “1-sid”

                             Code

Code = “2-sid”

                             Code

Code = “3-sid”

                             Code

Code = “4-sid”

                             Code

Code = “5-sid”

/bookstore/book[ends-with(@code,'sid')]

Here, XPath finds those element whose ‘Code’ ending with ‘sid’.

 5.Using Reqular Expression

Search along multiple anchors within a dataspace

Need to create new end point.

For Example,

http://localhost:8883/cps/api/v1/dataspaces/:dataspace-name/nodes?xpath=/bookstore/categories[@code='02'][@title='The Golden Compass']

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