I was trying to get only the first element:
<xml>
<title>xpath.playground.fontoxml.com</title>
<summary>This is a learning tool for XML, XPath and XQuery.</summary>
<tips>
<tip id='1' name='hello'>You can edit everything on the left</tip>
<tip id='examples'>You can access more examples from a menu in the top right</tip>
<tip id='permalink'>Another button there lets you share your test using an URL</tip>
</tips>
<tips>
<tip id='2' name='hello'>You can edit everything on the left</tip>
<tip id='examples'>You can access more examples from a menu in the top right</tip>
<tip id='permalink'>Another button there lets you share your test using an URL</tip>
</tips>
</xml>
This is the XPATH, im trying to get one element from all with name='hello'
//*[#name='hello'][1]
but it returns both <tip id='1' name='hello'> and <tip id='2' name='hello'>
my expectation was //*[#name='hello'][1] returns the element with id=1 and //*[#name='hello'][2] returns the element with id=2
how do I get this result
Please try this:
(//*[#name='hello'])[2]
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Given I have the following HTML structure:
<button aria-labelledby="ref-1" id="foo" onclick="convey(event)">action 2</button>
<div class="anotherElement">foobar</div>
<div id="ref-1" hidden>target 2</div>
I would like to fetch button by its aria-labelledby attribute. I tried the following options:
//*[#aria-labelledby=string(/div[#id="ref-1"]/#id)]
//*[#aria-labelledby = string(.//*[normalize-space() = "target 2"]/#id)]
//*[#aria-labelledby = .//*[normalize-space() = "target 2"]/#id]
But wasn't able to fetch the element. Anyone has an idea what the right xPath could be?
Edit: simply put: how do I fetch the button element if my only information is "target 2", and if both elements can be randomly located?
//button[#aria-labelledby='ref-1']
or
//button[#aria-labelledby=(//*/#id)]
or
//button[#aria-labelledby=(//*[contains(.,'target 2')]/#id)]
or
//button[#aria-labelledby=(//*[contains(text(),'target 2')]/#id)]
?
Since button and div are the same level siblings here you can use preceding-sibling XPath expression like this:
//div[text()='target 2']//preceding-sibling::button
pay attention with with your actual XML this will match 2 button elements.
To make more precise math I think we will need to be based on more details, not only the target 2 text
Here it is the source code output:
When I use this code: //b[text()= 'SEM Grubu']/following-sibling::span[text()[not(contains(., 'Sil'))]] gives me "Dosyayı İndir" button selected.
But I want to select this element with not contains 'Sil' button just only 'Dosyayı İndir' button like this code:
//b[text()= 'SEM Grubu']/following-sibling::span[text()[not(contains(., 'Sil'))]]/following-sibling::span[text()='Dosyayı İndir']
If you help me, I appreciate it.
From my xml, I can get this :
<home>
<creditors>
<count>2</count>
</creditors>
</home>
OR even this :
<home>
<creditors>
<moreThan>2</moreThan>
</creditors>
</home>
Which xpath expression can I use to get "<count>2</count>" instead of getting only "2" OR to get "<moreThan>2</moreThan>" instead of getting "2" ?
This XPath,
//creditors/count
will select all count child elements of all creditors elements in the XML document.
Update per OP's request in comments for a single XPath that selects both count and moreThan elements:
This XPath,
//creditors/*[self::count or self::moreThan]
will select all count or moreThan child elements of all creditors elements in the XML document.
Assuming that your xpath expression is OK, you just need to convert the element to string:
doc.xpath("home/creditors/*").to_s
=> "<count>2</count>"
Please check with queries returning more than one element, to make sure that it's desired behaviour.
I've some problem with Xpath syntax with html. I want to select an item which is into a div.
I have a Div define by an id : "popin".
In this div, I have a span with his id is "id_yes".
I can get the div with //DIV[contains(#id ,'popin')] but I failed to get the span element.
Have you a solution ?
If you have the ID, you can use:
//span[#id="id_yes"]
If you want to be more specific, //div[#id="popin"]/span[#id="id_yes"]
That, assuming your IDs are unique.
suppose I have this structure:
<div class="a" attribute="foo">
<div class="b">
<span>Text Example</span>
</div>
</div>
In xpath, I would like to retrieve the value of the attribute "attribute" given I have the text inside: Text Example
If I use this xpath:
.//*[#class='a']//*[text()='Text Example']
It returns the element span, but I need the div.a, because I need to get the value of the attribute through Selenium WebDriver
Hey there are lot of ways by which you can figure it out.
So lets say Text Example is given, you can identify it using this text:-
//span[text()='Text Example']/../.. --> If you know its 2 level up
OR
//span[text()='Text Example']/ancestor::div[#class='a'] --> If you don't know how many level up this `div` is
Above 2 xpaths can be used if you only want to identify the element using Text Example, if you don't want to iterate through this text. There are simple ways to identify it directly:-
//div[#class='a']
From your question itself you have mentioned the answer for it
but I need the div.a,
try this
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.a")).getAttribute("attribute");
use cssSelector for best result.
or else try the following xpath
//div[contains(#class, 'a')]
If you want attribute of div.a with it's descendant span which contains text something, try as below :-
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[#class = 'a' and descendant::span[text() = 'Text Example']]")).getAttribute("attribute");
Hope it helps..:)