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user1156718
user1156718

Reputation: 69

XPATH OR operator does not see

I am trying to use the OR operator where I want either expression to work.

The expression work individual but not together can you help please see below

//*[[@class='eline'][1]/following-sibling::tr] OR [[@class='eline'][1]]

Hi,

Here is a better example for you below so I am happy with your first solution as this selected everything but then I wanted to select the element where alt="Ab" as this elements position may change so I want the xpath to be a dynamic as possible

<tr class="eline">
<tr>
<td class="norm" nowrap=""/>
<td class="norm" nowrap="">
<td class="norm" nowrap="">
<td class="norm" nowrap="">cccc cccc </td>
<td class="norm" nowrap="">99999 </td>
<td class="norm" nowrap=""/>
<td>
<td class="norm" nowrap="">
<img width="20" vspace="0" border="0" hspace="0" height="15" alt="Ab" name="abs3" src="images/sp_abs.gif"/>
</td>
<td class="norm" nowrap="">
<td class="norm" nowrap="">testcase33 testcase33 </td>
<td class="norm" nowrap="">33100 </td>
<td class="norm" nowrap=""/>
<td class="norm" nowrap=""/>
</tr>
<tr class="eline">
<tr>
<tr class="eline">
<tr>
<tr>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 116

Answers (1)

lonesomeday
lonesomeday

Reputation: 237855

I think you are attempting to select:

  • the first element with the class attribute eline
  • all following sibling tr elements

The simplest way is simply to combine the two selectors that did work using the union | operator:

//*[@class='eline'][1]/following-sibling::tr | //*[@class='eline'][1]

For instance, with this XML:

<table>
    <tr name="first"/>
    <tr class="eline" />
    <tr name="third"/>
    <tr name="fourth"/>
</table>

the above XPath would give

<tr class="eline"/>
<tr name="third"/>
<tr name="fourth"/>

Presuming you want to find an element img[@alt="Ab"] from within the elements selected by the code above, you can do it with something like this:

(//*[@class='eline'][1]/following-sibling::tr | //*[@class='eline'][1]) // img[@alt="Ab"]

Upvotes: 1

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