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Joe Law
Joe Law

Reputation: 245

How to elegantly find multiple siblings in xpath

I'm hoping there's a better way of doing this than what I've already done. I've got an xpath statement that like this

'//div[@class="findthis"]/a[1]/text()|//div[@class="findthis"]/a[2]/text()|...//div[@class="findthis"]/a[10]/text()'

doing it this way feels very dumb, is there a more elegant way to do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 122

Answers (2)

Michael Kay
Michael Kay

Reputation: 163322

If you want the text node children of the first ten a elements, that would be

//div[@class="findthis"]/a[position() <= 10]/text()

(But you've accepted an answer which does something quite different to your original expression, so it's not really clear what you are looking for.)

Upvotes: 0

Mateusz Chrzaszcz
Mateusz Chrzaszcz

Reputation: 1280

This should do the trick:

//div[@class="findthis"]//a//text()

This will find all text descendands of all a attributes

Upvotes: 1

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