<p>I get an XML file From a web service. Now I want to get one of those elements out of the file.</p>

<p>I think I should go use XPath - any good starter reference?</p>

[{'answer_id': 81643, 'author': 'Sietse', 'author_id': 6400, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/6400', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>Not VB specific, but try this: <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/xpath_intro.asp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/xpath_intro.asp</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 81647, 'author': 'GHad', 'author_id': 11705, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11705', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>One way would be to only extract the needed informations with an xslt file into a new xml and use this new xml as data basis for further processing</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 81709, 'author': 'glenatron', 'author_id': 15394, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/15394', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I\'ve just been recovering my XPath skills- this <a href="http://www.mulberrytech.com/quickref/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Xslt and XPath Quick Reference sheet</a> is quite a useful reference - it doesn\'t go into depth but it does list what is available and what you might want to search for more information on.</p>\n\n<p>The w3schools tutorial linked previously isn\'t that great - it takes a long time to not cover a lot of ground - but it is still worth reading.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 82374, 'author': 'dummy', 'author_id': 6297, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/6297', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>If I need to do some XPath, I just tweak one of these examples.</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>child::node()</strong> selects all the children of the context node, whatever their node type</li>\n<li><strong>attribute::name</strong> selects the name attribute of the context node</li>\n<li><strong>attribute::*</strong> selects all the attributes of the context node</li>\n<li><strong>descendant::para</strong> selects the para element descendants of the context node</li>\n<li><strong>ancestor::div</strong> selects all <strong>div</strong> ancestors of the context node</li>\n<li><strong>ancestor-or-self::div</strong> selects the <strong>div</strong> ancestors of the context node and, if the context node is a div element, the context node as well</li>\n<li><strong>descendant-or-self::para</strong> selects the <strong>para</strong> element descendants of the context node and, if the context node is a <strong>para</strong> element, the context node as well</li>\n<li><strong>self::para</strong> selects the context node if it is a <strong>para</strong> element, and otherwise selects nothing</li>\n<li><strong>child::chapter/descendant::para</strong> selects the <strong>para</strong> element descendants of the chapter element children of the context node</li>\n<li><strong>child::*/child::para</strong> selects all <strong>para</strong> grandchildren of the context node</li>\n<li><strong>/</strong> selects the document root (which is always the parent of the document element)</li>\n<li><strong>/descendant::para</strong> selects all the <strong>para</strong> elements in the same document as the context node</li>\n<li><strong>/descendant::olist/child::item</strong> selects all the item elements that have an <strong>olist</strong> parent and that are in the same document as the context node</li>\n<li><strong>child::para[position()=1]</strong> selects the first <strong>para</strong> child of the context node</li>\n<li><strong>child::para[position()=last()]</strong> selects the last <strong>para</strong> child of the context node</li>\n<li><strong>child::para[position()=last()-1]</strong> selects the last but one <strong>para</strong> child of the context node</li>\n<li><strong>child::para[position()>1]</strong> selects all the <strong>para</strong> children of the context node other than the first para child of the context node</li>\n<li><strong>following-sibling::chapter[position()=1]</strong> selects the next <strong>chapter</strong> sibling of the context node</li>\n<li><strong>preceding-sibling::chapter[position()=1]</strong> selects the previous <strong>chapter</strong> sibling of the context node</li>\n<li><strong>/descendant::figure[position()=42]</strong> selects the forty-second figure element in the document</li>\n<li><strong>/child::doc/child::chapter[position()=5]/child::section[position()=2]</strong> selects the second section of the fifth <strong>chapter</strong> of the <strong>doc</strong> document element</li>\n<li><strong>child::para[attribute::type="warning"]</strong> selects all <strong>para</strong> children of the context node that have a type attribute with value <strong>warning</strong></li>\n<li><strong>child::para[attribute::type=\'warning\'][position()=5]</strong> selects the fifth <strong>para</strong> child of the context node that has a type attribute with value warning</li>\n<li><strong>child::para[position()=5][attribute::type="warning"]</strong> selects the fifth <strong>para</strong> child of the context node if that child has a type attribute with value <strong>warning</strong></li>\n<li><strong>child::chapter[child::title=\'Introduction\']</strong> selects the chapter children of the context node that have one or more title children with string-value equal to Introduction</li>\n<li><strong>child::chapter[child::title]</strong> selects the <strong>chapter</strong> children of the context node that have one or more title children</li>\n<li><strong>child::*[self::chapter or self::appendix]</strong> selects the <strong>chapter</strong> and <strong>appendix</strong> children of the context node</li>\n<li><strong>child::*[self::chapter or self::appendix][position()=last()]</strong> selects the last <strong>chapter</strong> or <strong>appendix</strong> child of the context node</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>An in depth documentation can be found <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>. Also these example are taken from there.</p>\n'}]
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