Xpath: Igonore nodes with certain innertext

Question

how can you ignore nodes which have a certain innertext but you don't know the innertext of the other nodes:

<row>
   <column>test</columm>
</row>
<row>
   <column>???</columm>
</row>

this is what I tried but didn't work

• row/column[not(.='test')]
• row/column[.!='test']
• row/column[not(text()='test')]
• row/column[text()!='test']
• row[column[text()!='test']]/column

Answer 1

This will get you the rows where the first <column> is not test.

//row[column[1][. != 'test']]

See http://www.xpathtester.com/obj/1ddc1930-ad7f-424c-9800-85df95fe6af3 (hit "Test!") to run it