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select parent node containing text inside children's node.

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Maybe you can find useful tips to your question in this xpath tutorial

Daniel Cukier 2009-10-03 22:50:36

Answer 2

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You could append "/.." to anchor back to the parent. Not sure if there's a more robust method.

expression = "//div[contains(text(), "Child text 1")]/.."

meder 2009-10-03 22:52:14

what does that mean by append "/.."

ajfjaj 2009-10-03 23:00:17

it means to add, try the example I just added.

meder 2009-10-03 23:01:19

wow that works ! not sure what it means by anchor back to parent ? does it find the immediate ancestor? what if i need to go back to the root that contains the div ? so the parent's parent. would i just do expression = "//html[contains(text(), "Child text 1")]/.."

ajfjaj 2009-10-03 23:05:57

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The following expression gives a node (div) in which any children nodes (not just h1,b,h3) contain specified text:

doc.xpath('//div[//*[contains(text(), "Child text 1")]]')

you can refine that and return the div with the id contents like in you example:

doc.xpath('//div[@id="contents" and //*[contains(text(), "Child text 1")]]')

andre-r 2009-10-04 08:29:08

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