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Reputation: 2389

Xpath: Two joined collections?

I don't even know how to describe this :)

I have bunch of divs, with similar IDs that have random part added to each (the random part is different for each session). and deeply nested in one of them a bunch of radio input boxes, without anything I can tie to (also the whole tree under the div doesn't have unique attributes I can tie to).

I need the first radio button. I get the needed div with (//div[contains(@id,'div-question')])[2], and I thought I could follow it up with similar construct, but I can't figure out how. I Also tired following:

(//div[contains(@id,'div-question')])[2]//input[@type='radio' and position() = 1]

but it return me all radio buttons, not only the first one (I'm using FirePath from FireBug -- could it be it's bug?)

So, how do I join two //... searches?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 34

Answers (1)

Michael Kay
Michael Kay

Reputation: 163458

//x[position()=1] returns every descendant x that is the first child of its parent. To select the first descendant x, you need (//x)[position()=1]. With a complex path it becomes easier to use the descendant axis explicitly rather than the // shorthand:

    descendant::div[contains(@id,'div-question')][2]
    /descendant::input[@type='radio'][1]

Upvotes: 3

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