Java xpath selection

Question

I'm having a little trouble getting values out of an XML document. The document looks like this:

<marketstat>  

<type id="35"> 
  <sell> 
    <median>6.00</median>  
  </sell> 
</type>  

<type id="34">    
  <sell> 
    <median>2.77</median> 
  </sell> 
</type>      

</marketstat> 

I need to get the median where type = x.

I've always had trouble figuring out xpath with Java and I can never find any good tutorials or references for this. If anyone could help me figure this out that would be great.

Answer 1

For the XPATH side of the problem: this should do the trick

//*/type[@id='34']/*/median

When I am dealing with XPATH I usually use W3Schools as reference. And IBM DeveloperWorks has a tutorial for the Java XPath API