Given that the HTML contains:
<div tagname="779853cd-355b-4242-8399-dc15f95b3276_Destination" class="panel panel-default"></div>
How do we write the following expression in XPath:
Find a <div>
element whose tagname
attribute ends with the string 'Destination'
I've been searching for days and I can't come up with something that works. Among many, I tried for example:
div[contains(@tagname, 'Destination')]
XPath 2.0
//div[ends-with(@tagname, 'Destination')]
XPath 1.0
//div[substring(@tagname,string-length(@tagname) -string-length('Destination') +1)
= 'Destination']
XPath 2 or 3: There's always regex.
.//div[matches(@tagname,".*_Destination$")]
You can use ends-with
(Xpath 2.0)
//div[ends-with(@tagname, 'Destination')]
You could use the below xpath which will work with Xpath 1.0
//div[string-length(substring-before(@tagname, 'Destination')) >= 0 and string-length(substring-after(@tagname, 'Destination')) = 0 and contains(@tagname, 'Destination')]
Basically it checks if there is any string ( or no strings ) before the first occurrence of Destination
but there should not be any text after the Destination
Test input :
<root>
<!--Ends with Destination-->
<div tagname="779853cd-355b-4242-8399-dc15f95b3276_Destination" class="panel panel-default"></div>
<!--just Destination-->
<div tagname="Destination" class="panel panel-default"></div>
<!--Contains Destination-->
<div tagname="779853cd-355b-4242-8399-dc15f95b3276_Destination_some_text" class="panel panel-default"></div>
<!--Doesn't contain destination-->
<div tagname="779853cd-355b-4242-8399-dc15f95b3276" class="panel panel-default"></div>
</root>
Test output:
<div class="panel panel-default"
tagname="779853cd-355b-4242-8399-dc15f95b3276_Destination"/>
<div class="panel panel-default" tagname="Destination"/>