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Rishma S
Rishma S

Reputation: 37

How to make Xpath Contains() to search the exact match while parsing xml?

My sample xml: 

 <root>
    <test>
    <para>This is a <comment>new</comment> para</para>
    </test>
    </root>

My XPath will be:

 root/test/para[text()=contains(., 'This is a new para')];

It will work fine as it contains the same text value.

If the text content in the xml is changed at the end.

 <root>
    <test>
    <para>This is a <comment>new</comment> para hightlighted</para>
    </test>
    </root>

It should return false. Instead I am getting true. Please help. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1104

Answers (1)

michael.hor257k
michael.hor257k

Reputation: 116992

Given:

<root>
    <test>
        <para id="1">This is a <comment>new</comment> para</para>
        <para id="2">This is a <comment>new</comment> para hightlighted</para>
    </test>
</root>

this XPath expression:

root/test/para[. = 'This is a new para']

matches para id="1" but not para id="2".

Upvotes: 2

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