Here is my DOM structure.
<td class="status">
<span id="tgtFCell10"><img src="/saas/v389/images/check.png"></span>
<img src="/saas/v389/images/fm_meta.png" onmouseover="pnFieldMeta.show(this,event,FieldmapUtil.genMeta({"dt":"string","parent":"JournalEntry","updateable":true,"filterable":true,"uniqueName":"JournalEntry_tranId","nullable":true,"precision":256,"name":"JournalEntry_tranId","displayParentName":"JournalEntry","scale":0,"label":"JournalEntry_tranId"}))" onmouseout="pnFieldMeta.hide(this)">
</td>
<td class="name"></td>
I want to find the xpath for the element using name value. My current code is
//tbody[#id='tgtFieldMapsTBody']/tr[1]/td/img[contains(#onmouseover,'JournalEntry_tranId')]/../following-sibling::*
But I am looking for a better answer which will check for exactness and not some super-set.I need a option where I can equate the string rather than using contains. If I have a case where there are two values JournalEntry_tranId and JournalEntry_tranId_value, then this will fail.Kindly help.
//tbody[#id='tgtFieldMapsTBody']/tr/td[img[contains(#onmouseover,'JournalEntry_tranId')]]/following-sibling::*
if you are looking an optional for (/../), then this should work.
You can use contains() you just need to include the starting and ending double quotes around it to get the exact match you want.
//tbody[#id='tgtFieldMapsTBody']/tr[1]/td/img[contains(#onmouseover,'\"JournalEntry_tranId\"')]/../following-sibling::*
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Can anyone please help me here ?
I want to run two xpath together and store the value, I am not sure if it is possible.
My one xpath is fetching City and second is state
//div[(text()='city')]/following-sibling::div
//div[contains(text(),'state')]/following-sibling::div
As xpath is telling name of city and state is provided in next div of city and state. I want to run both and capture output in string format.
On side note: both xpath is working fine for me.
<div>
<div>City</div>
<div>London</div>
</div>
<--In between some other elements like p, section other divs-->
<div>
<div>state</div>
<div>England</div>
</div>
It sounds like you want to convert the results of the two XPath expressions to strings, and concatenate those strings. The expression below concatenates them (with a single space between) using the XPath concat function.
concat(
//div[(text()='city')]/following-sibling::div,
' ',
//div[contains(text(),'state')]/following-sibling::div
)
One other thing: note that in your example XML the text of the first div is "City" rather than "city". Make sure the strings in your XPath expression match the text exactly because the expression 'City'='city' evaluates to false
I am new to xpath expression. Need help on a issue
Consider the following Document :
<tbody><tr>
<td>By <strong>Bec</strong></td>
<td><strong>Great Support</strong></td>
</tr></tbody>
In this I have to find the text inside tags separately.
Following is my xpath expression:
//tbody//td//strong/text();
It evaluates output as expected:
Bec
Great Support
How can I write xpath expressions to distinguish between the results i.e Becand Great Support
It's rather unclear what you're trying to do, but the following should succeed in selecting them separately:
//tbody/tr/td[1]/strong
and
//tbody/tr/td[2]/strong
Note that the text() you had at the end is most likely not needed in this case.
Not sure I understand 100%, but if you're trying to get the text of the first and the second strong tags, you can use position (1 based index)
//tbody/td[position()=1]/strong/text() //first text
//tbody/td[position()=2]/strong/text() //second text
This solution only applies to the current sample though, where your strong tags are inside either the first or second td tag.
Not sure this is what you're looking for... anyway, assuming you're asking to retrieve a node based on its text you can look up for text content by doing something like:
//tbody//td//strong/text()[.="Bec"]
PS
in [.=""] the dot is an alias for text() self::node() (thanks JLRishe for pointing out the mistake).
I have set of strings with nested [quote] tags in following format:
[quote name="John"]Some text. [quote name="Piter"]Inner quote.[/quote][/quote]
As you see it is not like ordinary BBCode. So I can't find a suitable regexp for gsub in Ruby to convert them to strings like this:
<blockquote>
<p>Some text.
<blockquote>
<p>Inner quote.</p>
<small>Piter</small>
</blockquote>
</p>
<small>John</small>
</blockquote>
Can anybody please help me with such regexp?
I'm pretty sure that regexes fundamentally can't cope with nesting. What you could do is make it do a minimal match (e.g. only the inner quote levels), replace them, and then repeat as long as you have more matches. Once you've replaced a level it will just be HTML so will not match the regex any more.
I'm trying to come up with a complex xPath expression but I can't figure out how to do that. Imagine you have some HTML like this:
<span>
something1
<br>
something2
<br>
something3
</span>
Imagine that sometimes the second <br> and the subsequent "something3" are not present. I would like to create an xPath expression that takes all the span nodes and its content up to the first <br> so that I end up parsing just "something1". I don't know if this is possible, if not does anyone know a way to get that after having parsed all the <span> nodes?
I have to say that I'm using HtmlParser, which is a Java library which parses HTML and supports xPath expressions.
Thanks,
Masiar
I'm a bit confused by your description of the problem, but it sounds something like
//span/br[1]/preceding-sibling::text()
I have a string like this.
<p class='link'>try</p>bla bla</p>
I want to get only <p class='link'>try</p>
I have tried this.
/<p class='link'>[^<\/p>]+<\/p>/
But it doesn't work.
How can I can do this?
Thanks,
If that is your string, and you want the text between those p tags, then this should work...
/<p\sclass='link'>(.*?)<\/p>/
The reason yours is not working is because you are adding <\/p> to your not character range. It is not matching it literally, but checking for not each character individually.
Of course, it is mandatory I mention that there are better tools for parsing HTML fragments (such as a HTML parser.)
'/<p[^>]+>([^<]+)<\/p>/'
will get you "try"
It looks like you used this block: [^<\/p>]+ intending to match anything except for </p>. Unfortunately, that's not what it does. A [] block matches any of the characters inside. In your case, the /<p class='link'>[^<\/p>]+ part matched <p class='link'>try</, but it was not immediately followed by the expected </p>, so there was no match.
Alex's solution, to use a non-greedy qualifier is how I tend to approach this sort of problem.
I tried to make one less specific to any particular tag.
(<[^/]+?\s+[^>]*>[^>]*>)
this returns:
<p class='link'>try</p>