Selecting elements whose attribute begins with something in XPath
//a[starts-with(@href, “https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3301898/buy.php/”)] http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XSLTreference/Output/function_starts-with.html
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How can I find the link URL by link text with XPath?
Should be something similar to: //a[text()=’text_i_want_to_find’]/@href
Matching a node based on a sibling’s value with XPath
Found it: /records/record/name[../record-type/text() = “A”]
XPath test if node value is number
Test the value against NaN: <xsl:if test=”string(number(myNode)) != ‘NaN'”> <!– myNode is a number –> </xsl:if> This is a shorter version (thanks @Alejandro): <xsl:if test=”number(myNode) = myNode”> <!– myNode is a number –> </xsl:if>
How to use not contains() in XPath?
XPath queries are case sensitive. Having looked at your example (which, by the way, is awesome, nobody seems to provide examples anymore!), I can get the result you want just by changing “business”, to “Business” //production[not(contains(category,’Business’))] I have tested this by opening the XML file in Chrome, and using the Developer tools to execute that … Read more
What is the difference between a CSS and XPath selector? And which is better with respect to performance for cross-browser testing?
CSS selectors perform far better than XPath selectors, and it is well documented in Selenium community. Here are some reasons: XPath engines are different in each browser, hence making them inconsistent Internet Explorer does not have a native XPath engine, and therefore Selenium injects its own XPath engine for compatibility of its API. Hence we … Read more
XPath to find elements that does not have an id or class
Pretty straightforward: //tr[not(@id) and not(@class)] That will give you all tr elements lacking both id and class attributes. If you want all tr elements lacking one of the two, use or instead of and: //tr[not(@id) or not(@class)] When attributes and elements are used in this way, if the attribute or element has a value it … Read more
How to concat a string to xsl:value-of select=”…?
You can use the rather sensibly named xpath function called concat here <a> <xsl:attribute name=”href”> <xsl:value-of select=”concat(‘myText:’, /*/properties/property[@name=”report”]/@value)” /> </xsl:attribute> </a> Of course, it doesn’t have to be text here, it can be another xpath expression to select an element or attribute. And you can have any number of arguments in the concat expression. Do … Read more
XPath selecting a node with some attribute value equals to some other node’s attribute value [closed]
This XPath is specific to the code snippet you’ve provided. To select <child> with id as #grand you can write //child[@id=’#grand’]. To get age //child[@id=’#grand’]/@age.
XPath:: Get following Sibling
You should be looking for the second tr that has the td that equals ‘ Color Digest ‘, then you need to look at either the following sibling of the first td in the tr, or the second td. Try the following: //tr[td=’Color Digest’][2]/td/following-sibling::td[1] or //tr[td=’Color Digest’][2]/td[2] http://www.xpathtester.com/saved/76bb0bca-1896-43b7-8312-54f924a98a89