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Xpath

This document provides an overview of XPath basics, functions, and axes. It explains that XPath is used to select nodes or node-sets from XML documents. Absolute XPath starts from the root element using slashes, while relative XPath uses double slashes and functions to locate elements. It describes several XPath functions like contains(), starts-with(), position() and axes like parent, child, ancestor, and descendant that allow traversing relationships between nodes. Overall, the document serves as a basic introduction to XPath syntax, functions, and how to navigate XML documents.

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Xpath

This document provides an overview of XPath basics, functions, and axes. It explains that XPath is used to select nodes or node-sets from XML documents. Absolute XPath starts from the root element using slashes, while relative XPath uses double slashes and functions to locate elements. It describes several XPath functions like contains(), starts-with(), position() and axes like parent, child, ancestor, and descendant that allow traversing relationships between nodes. Overall, the document serves as a basic introduction to XPath syntax, functions, and how to navigate XML documents.

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Xpath

1. XPath Basics
2. XPath Functions
3. XPath Axes
XPath Basic
➢ XPath Syntax
➢ Selecting Nodes
➢ Selecting Unknown Nodes
➢ Selecting Several Paths
➢ Absolute and Relative
➢ Parents and Children
➢ Index
➢ Nested locators
XPath Syntax
Absolute and relative XPath

Absolute XPath
▪ The path from root element to targeted element without missing any elements in between.
▪ Absolute XPath starts form by using ‘/’ (single forward slash) and ‘[index]’ (square bracket with index).
▪ /html/body/div[2]/div/div[1]/form/input[2]

Relative XPath
▪ This XPath is specific to the target element. It uses expression to locate web element(s) in HTML
documents.
▪ It uses “//” (double forward slash) and “/” along with other symbols, functions, and axes names.
▪ //*[@id="file-submit"]
Selecting Nodes
Index

1 Node name Selects all nodes with the name "node name"

2 / Selects from the root node.

3 // Select direct from given node

4 . Selects the current node

5 .. Selects the parent of the current node

6 @ Selects attributes
Selecting Unknown Nodes
Index Wild Card Description
1 * Matches any element node
2 @* Matches attribute node

Selecting Several Paths


By using the | operator in an XPath expression we can select several paths.
Parents and Children
//Tag[@condition]/.. # Parent
//Tag[@condition]/Tag[condition] # Child
//Tag[@condition]/Tag[condition] # Search with in child)

Index
//Tag[@condition][index] // nth child of its parent
(//Tag[@condition])[index] // nth locator of this locator

Nested locators
//Tag[tag[@condition]] // nested locator
//Tag[.//tag[@condition]] // nested locator
XPath Functions

➢ contains() ➢ round()
➢ starts-with() ➢ floor()
➢ position() ➢ not()
➢ last() ➢string-length()
➢ count()
➢ normalize-space()
➢ translate()
contains()
//span[contains(text(),'Add')]

//input[contains(@placeholder, "Email address")]


starts-with()
//span[starts-with(text(),'Add')]

//input[starts-with(@placeholder, "Email address")]


position()

//tr[position()= 3]
last()

//tbody/tr[last()]

count() //tbody/tr/td[count(//thead/tr/th[contains(text(), 'Date')+1])]


normalize-space()
If an element has spaces in its text or in the value of any attribute, then to create an XPath for such an element
we have to use the normalize-space function. It removes all the trailing and leading spaces from the string. It
also removes every new tab or line existing within the string.

//th[normalize-space(text()) ='Date']
translate()
//th[translate(text(), 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz') =' date ']

//th[normalize-space(translate(text(), 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')) ='date']


round() //td[round(text())='9']

floor() //td[floor(text())='8']
not()
//input[@type="radio" and not(@value='2’)]
string-length()
//span[string-length(text()) = 10]

//span[string-length(text()) > 30]

//span[string-length(text()) < 4]
XPath Axes
➢parent
➢child
➢ancestor
➢ancestor-or-self
➢descendent
➢descendent-or-self
➢following
➢following-sibling
➢preceding
➢preceding-sibling
parent //span[text()="Starbucks coffee"]/parent::td/parent::tr/td[5]/span
child
//form/child::div/div/input
ancestor used to find the ancestor of a specific member at the specified layer

//span[text()="MailChimp Services"]/ancestor::table
//span[text()="MailChimp Services"]/ancestor::tr

used to find the ancestor of a specific member at the specified


layer
ancestor-or-self
//span[text()="MailChimp Services"]/ancestor-or-self::span

//span[text()="MailChimp Services"]/ancestor-or-self::td
descendent This function will return the descendant element of the particular element.

//div[@class="table-responsive"]/descendant::tr
//div[@class="table-responsive"]/descendant::td
descendent-or-self
//div[@class="table-responsive"]/descendant-or-self::div
//div[@class="table-responsive"]/descendant-or-self::td
following This function will return the immediate element of the particular component

//tbody/tr[2]/following::tr

//tbody/tr[2]/following::td
following-sibling
//tbody/tr[2]/following-sibling::tr
Preceding This function will return the preceding element of the particular element

//tbody/tr[2]/preceding::tr

//tbody/tr[2]/preceding::td
preceding-sibling
//tbody/tr[2]/preceding-sibling::tr
//tbody/tr[2]/preceding-sibling::td
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