I need to find elements on a dynamic website that contain either test.gif or test2.gif. Tt my be that one of those is not present. Whats the correct synax to do it? My take with:
'.//*[#src="http://test/test1.gif"] or .//*[#src="http://test/test2.gif"]'
doesn't seem to work.
have you tried with:
#src="http://test/test1.gif" or #src="http://test/test2.gif"
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I've done dozens times, but now don't get what I'm doing wrong. I want to extract specific records, into 2 separate columns (I know that order wil not match), so I use:
//a/#href[contains(.; "github")]
and
//*[contains(text(); "Pricing:")]
But non of them is working - where my mistake?
(my sandbox: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11Z3xybq_eYQvjn2-UBOomgeJxFrrsFoXKzF9yZSeASM/edit#gid=1841586203 with LT localle)
damn, those google sheet localles!!!... must be:
//a/#href[contains(., "github")]
and
//*[contains(text(), "Pricing:")]
I'll keep for further reference.
On this page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Seven#Episode_list
I have:
//*[text()='Reception']//preceding::th[contains(#id, 'ep')]//following::I
But it only registers following.
The default firepath selector is: .//*[#id='mw-content-text']/div/table[5]/tbody/tr/td[1]/I but this kind of selector is known to break quite frequently. Just wondering if there is a better way of doing this and I thought this might be a way.
Thanks!
:)
- You can see that it's getting stuff under the table which is not what I want :S
Try to use below XPath to match required elements:
//th[contains(#id, 'ep')]/following::I[./following::*[text()='Reception']]
This looks more simple
//tr[contains(#class, 'vevent')]//i
Don't overcomplicate things. You need I tag inside each row. So just find row locator tr[contains(#class, 'vevent')] and get it's I
Another good approach in case you want to check that inside of parent element is located some special element, but you want to find some 3rd element is to use such style: //element[./specific]//child , so in your case:
//tr[contains(#class, 'vevent')][./th[contains(#id,'ep')]]//i
so it's I tag inside row that contains #id,'ep' in header
I have a code like this:
doc = Nokogiri::HTML("<a href='foo.html'>foo</a><a href='bar.html'>bar</a>")
doc.xpath('//a/#href').map(&:value) # => ["foo.html", "bar.html"]
It works as I expected.
But just out of curiosity I want to know, can I also get the value of href attributes only by using XPath?
Locate attributes first
example:
site name:
https://www.easymobilerecharge.com/
We want to locate "MTS" link
In your case, to locate this element, we can use x-path like:
//a[contains(text(),'MTS')]
Now to get href attribute, use:
//a[contains(text(),'MTS')]/#href
Judging from the first answer to this question the answer seems to be yes and no. It offers
xml.xpath("//Placement").attr("messageId")
which is quite close to "only XPath", but not entirely. Up to you to judge if that is enough for you.
I'm having some issues with XPath and import.io and I hope you'll be able to help me. :)
The html code:
<a href="page.php?var=12345">
For the moment, I manage to extract the content of the href ( page.php?var=12345 ) with this:
./td[3]/a[1]/#href
Though, I would like to just collect: 12345
substring might be the solution but it does not seem to work on import.io as I use it...
substring(./td[3]/a[1]/#href,13)
Any ideas of what the problem is?
Thank's a lot in advance!
Try using this for the xpath: (Have the field selected as Text)
.//*[#class='oeil']/a/#href
Then use this for your regex:
([^=]*)$
This will get you the ISBN number you are looking for.
import.io only support functions in XPath when they return a node list
Your path expression is fine, but perhaps it should be
substring(./td[3]/a[1]/#href,14)
"Does not seem to work" is not a very clear description of what is wrong. Do you get error messages? Is the output wrong? Do you have any code surrounding the path expression you could show?
You can use substring, but using substring-after() would be even better.
substring-after(/a/#href,'=')
assuming as input the tiny snippet you have shown:
<a href="page.php?var=12345"/>
will select
12345
and taking into account the structure of your input
substring-after(./td[3]/a[1]/#href,'=')
A leading . in a path expression selects only immediate child td nodes of the current context node. I trust you know what you are doing.
I want to use XPath code in an InfoPath form to sum the data in field12 when field11 is equal to IT. I tried using the following code, but it doesn't work.
number(sum(/descendant-or-self::node()/my:group12[my:field11 = "IT;"]/my:field12))
I suspect this has to do with the multilayering of groups, as shown below. Does anyone know the code that would allow me to get to the data in group12? Thanks in advance for your help.
myfields>group9>group10>group11>group12>field11 field12
Genipro
Looks like:
number(sum(/descendant-or-self::my:group12[my:field11 = 'IT;']/my:field12))
could be right.
decendant-or-self should not be necissary in this case (unless you need the expression to work even if group12 is moved).
This should work fine:
sum(/my:myfields/my:group9/my:group10/my:group11/my:group12[contains(my:field11,'IT')]/my:field12)
It doesn't matter if any of the other groups are repeating either. All group12's will be checked.