I have this query //*[#id="test"]/div/[not(contains(.,'/explore'))]
I want to add a second 'not contains' command to this:
//*[#id="test"]/div/[not(contains(.,'/locations'))]
And maybe even a 3rd one. Does anyone know how to do this?
None of what you posted is a valid XPath expression. If you meant to filter the div element so that only div that doesn't contain certain string, say "/explore", is returned, you can do this way instead :
//*[#id="test"]/div[not(contains(.,'/explore'))]
and another XPath example that check if the div doesn't contain any of 2 strings, "/explore" and "/locations" :
//*[#id="test"]/div[not(contains(.,'/explore')) and not(contains(.,'/locations'))]
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I have the following which is the second span in html with the class of 'ProductListOurRef':
<span class="ProductListOurRef">Product Code: 60076</span>
Ive tried the following Xpath:
(//span[#class="ProductListOurRef"])[2]
But that returns 'Product Code: 60076'. But I need to use Xpath to strip the 'Product Code: ' to just give me the result of '60076'.
I believe 'substring-after' should do it but i dont know how to write it
If you are using XPath 1.0, then the result of an XPath expression must be either a node-set, a single string, a single number, or a single boolean.
As shown in comments on the question, you can write a query using substring-after(), whose result is a string.
However, some applications expect the result of an XPath expression always to be a node-set, and it looks as if you are stuck with such an application. Because you can't construct new nodes in XPath (you can only select nodes that are already present in the input), there is no way around this.
how do I get "Div/yield" value from here? i've tried //td[node()='Div/yield' and //td[text()='Div/yield'.
and //td[#data-snapfield='latest_dividend-dividend_yield']/following-sibling::td
#sideshowbarker is correct in that there's a newline at the end so looking for an element with the exact text would return 0 results. Another way to do this (one is through #sideshowbarker's answer) is to look for an element that contains this text. So the first step is:
//td[contains(text(),'Div/yield')]
But you don't need this. Your last answer is on the right track. You've identified the element that you're after, but I think you're looking for the text. So you need to add text() at the end:
//td[#data-snapfield='latest_dividend-dividend_yield']/following-sibling::td/text()
But if you want to use the field name, so you could use the xpath for the other fields as well, then just combine these:
//td[contains(text(),'Field name')]/following-sibling::td/text()
Now just replace Field name with the field you're after..
e.g. 'Div/yield': //td[contains(text(),'Div/yield')]/following-sibling::td/text()
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 an XML document that contains items with dashes I'd like to strip
e.g.
<xmlDoc>
<items>
<item>a-b-c</item>
<item>c-d-e</item>
<items>
</xmlDoc>
I know I can find-replace a single item using this xpath
/xmldoc/items/item[1]/translate(text(),'-','')
Which will return
"abc"
however, how do I do this for the entire set?
This doesn't work
/xmldoc/items/item/translate(text(),'-','')
Nor this
translate(/xmldoc/items/item/text(),'-','')
Is there a way at all to achieve that?
I know I can find-replace a single
item using this xpath
/xmldoc/items/item[1]/translate(text(),'-','')
Which will return
"abc"
however, how do I do this for the
entire set?
This cannot be done with a single XPath 1.0 expression.
Use the following XPath 2.0 expression to produce a sequence of strings, each being the result of the application of the translate() function on the string value of the corresponding node:
/xmlDoc/items/item/translate(.,'-', '')
The translate function accepts in input a string and not a node-set. This means that writing something like:
"translate(/xmlDoc/items/item/text(),'-','')"
or
"translate(/xmlDoc/items/item,'-','')"
will result in a function call on the first node only (item[1]).
In XPath 1.0 I think you have no other chances than doing something ugly like:
"concat(translate(/xmlDoc/items/item,'-',''),
translate(/xmlDoc/items/item[2],'-',''))"
Which is privative for a huge list of items and returns just a string.
In XPath 2.0 this can be solved nicely using for expressions:
"for $item in /xmlDoc/items/item
return replace($item,'-','')"
Which returns a sequence type:
abc cde
PS Do no confuse function calls with location paths. They are different kind of expressions, and in XPath 1.0 can not be mixed.
here is yet anther example, running it against chrome developer tools, in prepartion for a selenium test.
$x("//table[#id='sometable_table']//tr[1=1 and ./td[2=2 and position()=2 and .//*[translate(text(), ',', '') ='1001'] ] ]/td[position()=2]")
Essentially the the data sometable_table has a column containing numbers that appear localized. For example 1001 would appear as 1,001. With the above you have somewhat nasty xpath expression.
Where first you select all table rows. Then you focus on the data of the position 2 table data for the row. Then you go deeper into the contents of the position=2 table data expand the data on the cell until you find any node whose text after string replacement is 1001. Finally you ask for the table at position 2 to be returned.
But since all your main filters are at the table row level, you could be doing additional filters at table data columns at other positions as well, if you need to find the appropriate table row that has content (A) on a cell column and content (B) on a different column.
NOTE:
It was actually quite nasty to write this, because intuitively, we all google for XPATH replace string. So I was getting furstrated trying to use xpath replace until i realized chrome supports XPATH 1.0. In xpath 1.0 the string functions that exist are different from xpath 2.0, you need to use this translate function.
See reference:
http://www.edankert.com/xpathfunctions.html
I have such content of html file:
<a class="bf" title="Link to book" href="/book/229920/">book name</a>
Help me to construct xpath expression to get link text (book name).
I try to use /a, but expression evaluates without results.
If the context is the entire document you should probably use // instead of /. Also you may (not sure about that) need to get down one more level to retrieve the text.
I think it should look like this
//a/text()
EDIT: As Tomalak pointed out it's text() not text
Have you tried
//a
?
More specific is better:
//a[#class='bf' and starts-with(#href, '/book/')]
Note that this selects the <a> element. In your host environment it's easy to extract the text value of that node via standard DOM methods (like the .textContent property).
To select the actual text node, see the other answers in this thread.
It depends also on the rest of your document. If you use // in the beginning all the matching nodes will be returned, which might be too many results in case you have other links in your document.
Apart from that a possible xpath expression is //a/text().
The /a you tried only returns the a-tag itself, if it is the root element. To get the link text you need to append the /text() part.