“has a descendant named interestintag” is spelled .//interestintag in XPath, so the expression you are looking for is:
//table[@name="important"]/tr[.//interestingtag]
“has a descendant named interestintag” is spelled .//interestintag in XPath, so the expression you are looking for is:
//table[@name="important"]/tr[.//interestingtag]