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Sam
Sam

Reputation: 543

XPATH to validate the content of the text

I have the below piece of HTML.

HTML Code: 
<a id="pINumber" href="csf.ajax?et=p.preparationinsurance">PASS170XX</a>

XPATH to identify the above element
//*[@id="pINumber"]

I'm trying to build an XPATH which can validate the Text 'PASS' is always present as Text in the beginning . What would be the XPATH in such cases.

After few searches about the XPATH, i could see that "substring-after" can be used to do this. But couldn't prepare the right XPATH. Any help to build an XPATH for the above HTML with a text 'PASS' as part of verification that would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1198

Answers (1)

zx485
zx485

Reputation: 29042

Use this XPath:

starts-with(a/text(),'PASS')

It checks if the text() of the link a does start with the char-sequence PASS. In your case this evaluates to true.

And in a whole expression this can be

//a[starts-with(text(),'PASS')]

Upvotes: 1

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