Oracle SOA Suite 12c Essentials — Question 40

Given the following XML document, which two XPath expressions return the same result?
<?xml version ="1.0" encoding ="UTF – 8"?>
<bookstore>
<book category="COOKING">
<title lang="en">Everyday Italian Treats</title>
<author>George Smith</author>
<year>2009</year>
<price>30.00</price>
</book>
<book category="WEB">
<title lang="en">Getting Started with XPath</title>
<author>Tammy Lee</author>
<author>SergieLadloff</author>
<year>2011</year>
<price>49.99</price>
</book>
</bookstore>

Answer options

• A. bookstore/book/author
• B. bookstore/book/author/text ()
• C. bookstore/book/author/*
• D. bookstore//author/text ()
• E. //author/@text
• F. //author/*text

Correct answer: B, C

Explanation

The correct answers B and C both target the author elements within the book elements, but B retrieves the text content directly, while C refers to the author elements generically. The other options either don't return text directly or reference incorrect XPath syntax, such as E and F.