XPATH: Check if a xml node contains specific characters or strings

Question

Imagine this XML file (sorry for sick example!!)

<DOC>
<Test>
    <Name>1 vs 100 Pre pre History</Name>
    <Type>Dinasors</Type>
</Test>

<Test>
    <Name> 1 vs 100 Post moderns</Name>
    <Type>Aliens</Type>
</Test>
</Doc>

The idea is returning the Type value, By checking if Name node contains a specific character or string. For example I want a XPath Query like:

/Doc//Test[contains "Pre" and "History" and 1]/Type

That is check if Test contains "Pre" and "History" and number 1, What will be the xpath query? Alo I like this query to not be CASE SENSITIVE.

Thanks.

Are we talking Xpath 1.0 or 2.0? – forty-two Apr 12 '11 at 13:08 — forty-two, Apr 12 '11 at 13:08

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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I think this should work (haven't tested it):

/Doc//Test[contains(Name,'Pre') and contains(Name,'History') and contains(Name,1)]/Type

However that is case sensitive. If you want it case insensitive, then you may want to have a look at this question or this question: you must use translate to convert your Name to lower-case (or upper-case) and then match.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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answered Apr 12 '11 at 13:19

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+1 Correct, but do note tha `//` operator is not needed. Also it could be reduce to `/Doc/Test[Name[contains(.,'Pre')][contains(.,'History'][contains(.,'1')]]/Type` – Apr 12 '11 at 15:06

Bkillnest · Answer 2 · 2013-01-03T06:36:35.927

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it works when:

/Doc//Test[contains(Name,'Pre')][contains(Name,'History')][contains(Name,1)]/Type;

edited Jan 03 '13 at 06:36

answered Jan 03 '13 at 05:25

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