For example I have an XML element:
<input id="optSmsCode" type="tel" name="otp" placeholder="SMS-code">
Suppose I know that somewhere there must be an attribute with otp value, but I don’t know in what attribute it can be, respectively, is it possible to have an XPath expression of type like this:
.//input[(contains(*, "otp")) or (contains(*, "ode"))]
Try it like this and see if it works:
one = '//input/#*[(contains(.,"otp") or contains(.,"ode"))]/..'
print(driver.find_elements_by_xpath(one))
Edit:
The contains() function has a required cardinality of first argument of either one or zero. In plain(ish) English, it means you can check only one element at a time to see if it contains the target string.
So, the expression above goes through each attribute of input separately (/#*), checks if the attribute value of that specific attribute contains within it the target string and - if target is found - goes up to the parent of that attribute (/..) which, in the case of an attribute, is the node itself (input).
This XPath expression selects all <input> elements that have some attribute, whose string value contains "otp" or "ode". Notice that there is no need to "go up to the parent ..."
//input[#*[contains(., 'otp') or contains(., 'ode')]]
If we know that "otp" or "ode" must be the whole value of the attribute (not just a substring of the value), then this expression is stricter and more efficient to evaluate:
//input[#*[. ='otp' or . = 'ode']]
In this latter case ("otp" or "ode" are the whole value of the attribute), if we have to compare against many values then an XPath expression of the above form will quickly become too long. There is a way to simplify such long expression and do just a single comparison:
//input[#*[contains('|s1|s2|s3|s4|s5|', concat('|', ., '|'))]]
The above expression selects all input elements in the document, that have at least one attribute whose value is one of the strings "s1", "s2", "s3", "s4" or "s5".
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For the below path in XPath, I need to have a condition for parser, where the value of the attribute is '1'
./*[local-name()='AccountNumber']/#UndocumentedAccount
I've tried a few things so far, but none seem to work
./*[local-name()='AccountNumber']/#UndocumentedAccount='1'
./*[local-name()='AccountNumber'][#UndocumentedAccount='1']
./*[local-name()='AccountNumber']/#*[UndocumentedAccount and text()='1']
I know how to build such conditions for the value of the element itself, but haven't figured out yet how to do the same for the attribute values
If you are trying to select the UndocumentedAccount attribute only if its value is 1, then the syntax you are probably looking for is:
./*[local-name()='AccountNumber']/#UndocumentedAccount[.='1']
The dot is shorthand for the self axis which is the context item (the item immediately to the left of the [ bracket). You can also try the following to only select AccountNumber nodes having an UndocumentedAccount attribute = 1:
./*[local-name()='AccountNumber' and #UndocumentedAccount ='1']/#UndocumentedAccount
I would like to select a attribute and the text() value of a node in one query, e.g. I have
<Tag1 #myattr='test'>MyText</Tag1>
and I am interested in getting "test" and "MyText" with one query.
The obvious
//Tag1/#myattr | //Tag1/text()
fails due to the fact, that Unions are only allowed over node-sets.
Any ideas?
I think, given XPath 2.0, you want a sequence of string values which you get with //Tag1/(#myattr, .)/string(). If you want a single string then use //Tag1/string-join((#myattr, .), ' ').
BTW, your path //Tag1/#myattr | //Tag1/text() would select a sequence containing an attribute value and a text node. I don't see how that would fail.
Given this xml:
<mets:techMD ID="techMD014">
<mets:mdWrap MDTYPE="PREMIS:OBJECT">
<mets:xmlData>
<premis:object
xsi:type="premis:file"
xsi:schemaLocation="info:lc/xmlns/premis-v2
http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/v2/premis-v2-0.xsd">
<premis:objectIdentifier>
<premis:objectIdentifierType
>filepath</premis:objectIdentifierType>
<premis:objectIdentifierValue
>bib1234_yyyymmdd_99_x_performance.xml</premis:objectIdentifierValue>
</premis:objectIdentifier>
</premis:object>
</mets:xmlData>
</mets:mdWrap>
</mets:techMD>
<mets:techMD ID="techMD015">
<mets:mdWrap MDTYPE="PREMIS:OBJECT">
<mets:xmlData>
<premis:object
xsi:type="premis:representation"
xsi:schemaLocation="info:lc/xmlns/premis-v2
http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/v2/premis-v2-0.xsd">
<premis:objectIdentifier>
<premis:objectIdentifierType
>local</premis:objectIdentifierType>
<premis:objectIdentifierValue
>bib1234_yyyymmdd_99_x</premis:objectIdentifierValue>
</premis:objectIdentifier>
</premis:object>
</mets:xmlData>
</mets:mdWrap>
</mets:techMD>
I would like to make a xpath query that takes both index and attribute into account.
I.e can I combine these two into ONE query? (Its the stuff around the "object" element Im interested in):
//techMD/mdWrap[
#MDTYPE=\'PREMIS:OBJECT\'
]/xmlData//object[1]/objectIdentifier/objectIdentifierValue
//techMD/mdWrap[
#MDTYPE=\'PREMIS:OBJECT\'
]/xmlData//object[
#xsi:type=\'premis:file\'
]/objectIdentifier/objectIdentifierValue
Thanks!
Just replace according part to:
object[#xsi:type='premis:file'][1]
if you want first object of those who have a given xsi:type value or
object[1][#xsi:type='premis:file']
if you want the first object, providing it has a given xsi:type value.
I would like to find the value of an element matched on id attribute for which I only have the ref - the bit with #, the anchor.
I am looking for the value of partyId:
< party id="partyA" >
< partyId >THEID< /partyId >
but to get there I only have the href from the following
< MyData >
< MyReference href="#partyA" />
Strip the # sign does not look good to me.
Any hints?
Because you haven't provided complete XML documents, I have to use // -- a practice I strongly recommend to avoid.
Suppose that
$vDataRef
is defined as
//MyData/MyReference/#href
and its string value is "#partyA", then one possible XPath expression that selects the wanted node is:
//party[#id=substring($vDataRef,2)]
In case the XML document has a DTD in which the id attribute of party is defined to be of type ID, then it is more convenient and efficient to use the standard XPath function id():
id(substring($vDataRef,2))
Assuming you have your ID as a variable already (lets say $myId), then try using:
//party[contains($myId, #id)]
The contains() function will look to see on each matching node whether or not the partyId attibute is in the value that you pass in.
Alternatively (as that could be considered 'ropey'), you can try:
//party[#id=substring($myId, 2, 1 div 0)]
the substring() function should be a little more precise.
I have the following xml snippet
<ZMARA01 SEGMENT="1">
<CHARACTERISTICS_01>X,001,COLOR_ATTRIBUTE_FR,BRUN ÉCORCE,TMBR,French C</CHARACTERISTICS_01>
<CHARACTERISTICS_02>X,001,COLOR_ATTRIBUTE,Timber Brown,TMBR,Color Attr</CHARACTERISTICS_02>
</ZMARA01>
I am looking for an xpath expression that will match based on COLOR_ATTRIBUTE. It will not always be in CHARACTERISTIC_02. It could be CHARACTERISTIC_XX. Also I don't want to match COLOR_ATTRIBUTE_FR. I have been using this:
Transaction.Input_XML{/ZMAT/IDOC/E1MARAM/ZMARA01/*[starts-with(local-name(.), 'CHARACTERISTIC_')][contains(.,'COLOR_ATTRIBUTE')]}
This gets me mostly there but it matches both COLOR_ATTRIBUTE and COLOR_ATTRIBUTE_FR
Use:
contains(concat(',', ., ','), ',COLOR_ATTRIBUTE,')
This first surrounds the string value of the context node with commas, then simply tests if the so cunstructed string contains ',COLOR_ATTRIBUTE,'.
Thus we treat all cases (pattern at the start of the string, pattern at the end of the string and pattern neither at the start or at the end) in the same single way.
If COLOR_ATTRIBUTE is guaranteed not to be in the first or last position, you could use [contains(.,',COLOR_ATTRIBUTE,')], otherwise you could use something like [contains(.,'COLOR_ATTRIBUTE') and not contains(.,'COLOR_ATTRIBUTE_FR')].