/Obj/Name/text() is the XPath to return the content of the CDATA markup. What threw me off was the behavior of the Value property. For an XMLNode (DOM world), the XmlNode.Value property of an Element (with CDATA or otherwise) returns Null. The InnerText property would give you the CDATA/Text content. If you use Xml.Linq, XElement.Value returns … Read more
There is normalize-space(), which does a little more than trimming, but which may be fine for URLs.
Use: /html/body/*[self::h1 or self::h2 or self::h3]/text() The following expression is incorrect: //html/body/*[local-name() = “h1” or local-name() = “h2” or local-name() = “h3”]/text() because it may select text nodes that are children of unwanted:h1, different:h2, someWeirdNamespace:h3. Another recommendation: Always avoid using // when the structure of the XML document is statically known. Using // most often … Read more
text() gets you a set of text nodes. I tend to use it more in a context of //span//text() or something. If you are trying to check if the text inside an element contains something you should use contains on the element rather than the result of text() like this: span[contains(., ‘testuser’)] XPath is pretty … Read more
This xpath should work as well: //group/p1[string-length(text()) > 0]
JSoup doesn’t support XPath yet, but you may try XSoup – “Jsoup with XPath”. Here’s an example quoted from the projects Github site (link): @Test public void testSelect() { String html = “<html><div><a href=”https://github.com”>github.com</a></div>” + “<table><tr><td>a</td><td>b</td></tr></table></html>”; Document document = Jsoup.parse(html); String result = Xsoup.compile(“//a/@href”).evaluate(document).get(); Assert.assertEquals(“https://github.com”, result); List<String> list = Xsoup.compile(“//tr/td/text()”).evaluate(document).list(); Assert.assertEquals(“a”, list.get(0)); Assert.assertEquals(“b”, list.get(1)); } … Read more
I am trying to write an xpath expression that selects all div tags that have an attribute id that start with CompanyCalendar. The following expression is perhaps what you are looking for: //div[starts-with(@id,’CompanyCalendar’)] What it does, in plain English, is Return all div elements in the XML document that have an attribute id whose attribute … Read more
How can I search for a first k sibling after m node? Basically, find some node and then continue searching from that node. Assuming that we have the following well-formed XML document: <t> <n></n> <k></k> <m></m> <k></k> </t> then the following XPath expression: /*/m[1]/following-sibling::k[1] selects the first k following-sibling of the first m child of … Read more
Given the XML <?xml version=”1.0″?> <root> <foo id=”id1″> <foo id=”i2″> <baz/> </foo> </foo> </root> You can find the nearest ancestor foo element from baz using the XPath expression: //baz/ancestor::foo[1] Which will select the foo element node of id “i2”. So in your example (if I understand right) once you have got the “a” element you … Read more
Use the value-of element: <xsl:value-of select=”/Some/Path/To/Element”/> If you can only specify an XPath then use the text function like this: /Some/Path/To/Element/text()