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']

1

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')]

To Learn XPATH in detail please visit- selenium xpath in detail

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