how to get a node based on the field name value from xml?

Question

I need to get the C node that has the field (name = p and value = 4)

How to get this without using index?

<A>
    <B>
        <C>
            <field name="p" value="1"/>
            <field name="q" value="2"/>
        </C>
        <C>
            <field name="p" value="3"/>
            <field name="q" value="4"/>
        </C>
    </B>
</A>

Possible duplicate of [XPath to select Element by attribute value](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14248063/xpath-to-select-element-by-attribute-value) — Quentin, May 17 '19 at 08:50
there is no node `name = p and value = 4` on your example of xml file? — KunduK, May 17 '19 at 09:09

KunduK · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-17T10:13:53.730

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Try the following Xpath.

//field[@name="q"][@value="4"]/..

edited May 17 '19 at 10:13

answered May 17 '19 at 09:25

KunduK

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thanks for the suggestion. however I was trying to get the node that has . (editing my question now) – IllegalSkillsException May 17 '19 at 09:37
Edited Try now. – KunduK May 17 '19 at 09:42
this did the trick //C//field[@name="q"][@value="4"]/.. pls add this to your solution, so that i can mark it as the answer – IllegalSkillsException May 17 '19 at 10:07
Your question was not clear to me earlier.If you asked that you want get parent tag of given child tag it would have been better.Updated it thanks. – KunduK May 17 '19 at 10:13

how to get a node based on the field name value from xml?

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