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xmlselenium-webdriverxpath
Praveen Somayaji
Praveen Somayaji

Reputation: 57

What does /../ mean in xpath?

Recently I came across an XPath locator value which has "/../" in between.

What is the meaning of it?

Context XPath:

//*[contains(@class, 'xyz')]//*[contains(text(), 'text')]
                            /../*[contains(@class, 'className')]

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2497

Answers (1)

kjhughes
kjhughes

Reputation: 111541

/../ in XPath1

Relatively, /../node() selects the parent's children of the context node:

  • / separates location steps.
  • /.. selects the parents of the context node because .. is an abbreviation for parent::.
  • /../ introduces an incomplete next step.
  • /../node() would select the parent's children nodes.

Absolutely, /../node() selects nothing.

  • / selects the root node.
  • /.. selects nothing because the root node has no parent.
  • /../ introduces an incomplete next step.
  • /../node() would select nothing because /.. selected nothing.

1. Note that by itself, /../ is syntactically invalid; below assumes its part of a valid XPath.

Upvotes: 3

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