Search for	Example	Results
A single word	`cat`	Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats".
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase.	`"cat food"` (quotation marks)	Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase.

Search for	Operator	Example
Two or more words in the same topic	`AND` `and` `+` (plus symbol) `&` (ampersand)	`cat AND dog` `"cat food"+milk` `"cat food"&"dog food"`
Either word in a topic	`OR` `or` `\|` (pipe)	`cat OR dog` `cat \| dog`
Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase	`NOT` `not` `!` (exclamation point)	`NOT cat` `! dog`
Topics that contain one string and do not contain another	`^` (caret)	`cat ^ mouse`
A combination of search types	`( )` parentheses	`cat + (dog \| mouse)` `cat \| dog + (! mouse)`

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Use > Collecting Topology Data > Use Topology Synchronization Rules to Map Data > Mapping Syntax > XPath Navigation > XPath Expressions and Example Values

XPath Expressions and Example Values

The following table lists typical XPath expressions and provides an example for each expression.

XPath Expression	Meaning	Example
`Caption`	Caption from CI	`PRD server 01`
`./Caption`	Caption from CI	`PRD server 01`
`/Caption`	Caption of the root (database) CIs	`PRD`
`../../Caption`	Selects the caption from the parent of the parent CI	`PRD`
`../RelationType`	Selects the parent relation type	`container_f`
`../../OMType`	Selects the parent of the parent type	`ACME_System`
`/OMType`	Selects type of the root CI	`ACME_System`
`//.[type=’WINOSSPI: Infrastructure’]/Caption`	Selects the caption of all CIs of type `WINOSSPI: Infrastructure`	`BLANTONS: Infrastructure`
`//Dependencies[type=’hosted_on’]/CI/Caption`	Selects the caption of all CIs with a `hosted_on` dependency	`BLANTONS`
`//Dependencies/CI/Caption`	Selects the caption of all CIs that have dependencies	`BLANTONS`

Note If the Xpath expression selects a node below the starting database node, the “..” reads back one step. The following expression reads down to the node db and then links back to the starting database node.

//dependencies[type='hosted_on']/CI/../..

However, if the node db is the starting node, the expression ../.. follows the containment links of the node db, which is not the dependency relation that is shown in this example. The result depends on the parent container of the node, which is a different hierarchy.

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