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Reputation: 11452

XPath with multiple contains on different elements

Is it possible to have XPath expression with multiple contains of different element values?

XML

<data>
   <person>
      <firstname>Kerry</firstname>
      <lastname>Packer</lastname>
      <address>Crown</address>
   <person>
   <person>
      <firstname>Kerry</firstname>
      <lastname>Murdoch</lastname>
      <address>California</address>
   <person>
<data>

PHP

$xml = simplexml_load_string($data);
$elements = $xml->xpath("(//person)[firstname[contains(., 'Kerr')]] and [lastname[contains(., 'och')]]");

Currently above XPath expression is flagged as invalid. However if I use it with one element, 

$xml->xpath("(//person)[firstname[contains(., 'Kerr')]]");

then it works fine.

Upvotes: 25

Views: 39431

Answers (1)

Martin Honnen
Martin Honnen

Reputation: 167641

You simply want

//person[contains(firstname, 'Kerr') and contains(lastname, 'och')]

Upvotes: 44

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