What XPath can I use to select any category with a name attribute specified and any child node author with the value specified.
I've tried different variations of the path below with no success:
//quotes/category[@name='Sport' and author="James Small"]
The XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<quotes>
<category name="Sport">
<author>James Small<quote date="09/02/1985">Quote One</quote><quote date="11/02/1925">Quote nine</quote></author>
</category>
<category name="Music">
<author>Stephen Swann
<quote date="04/08/1972">Quote eleven</quote></author>
</category>
</quotes>
5 Answers
Try:
//category[@name='Sport' and ./author/text()='James Small']
Use:
/category[@name='Sport' and author/text()[1]='James Small']
or use:
/category[@name='Sport' and author[starts-with(.,'James Small')]]
It is a good rule to try to avoid using the // pseudo-operator whenever possible, because its evaluation can typically be very slow.
Also:
./somename
is equivalent to:
somename
so it is recommended to use the latter.
question is not clear, but what i understand you need to select a catagory that has name attribute and should have child author with value specified , correct me if i am worng
here is a xpath
//category[@name='Required value'][./author[contains(.,'Required value')]]
e.g
//category[@name='Sport'][./author[contains(.,'James Small')]]
You can apply multiple conditions in xpath using and, or
//input[@class='_2zrpKA _1dBPDZ' and @type='text']
//input[@class='_2zrpKA _1dBPDZ' or @type='text']
Here, we can do this way as well:
//category [@name='category name']/author[contains(text(),'authorname')]
OR
//category [@name='category name']//author[contains(text(),'authorname')]
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