Xpath exact match

Patrik911

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Oct 19, 2016, 3:27:07 PM10/19/16

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Hello,

I try do select an element via xpath but do not find the solution.

//table[@id='tblCoverageGroupsForPlan']/tbody/tr/td[contains(.,'Ambulatory')]

My XPATH returns 2 element because there is a TD which contains "Ambulatory" and another one contains "Ambulatory Transport"

How can I select only the first one?

I also tried //table[@id='tblCoverageGroupsForPlan']/tbody/tr[1]/td[normalize-space(text())='Ambulatory'] but this does not give me a result. I think the reason is that the text contains a second text the one between the span tags: "0/11" but I am not sure.

This also return nothing?

//table[@id='tblCoverageGroupsForPlan']/tbody/tr[1]/td[normalize-space(text())='Ambulatory 0/11']

All suggestions are welcome.

Thanks.

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พอ สุวพรหม

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Oct 20, 2016, 12:11:29 AM10/20/16

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//table[@id='tblCoverageGroupsForPlan']/tbody/tr/td[contains(.,'Ambulatory')][1] ?

Patrik911

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Oct 20, 2016, 10:04:35 AM10/20/16

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Your suggestion still gives me two matches because there are 2 td that contain Ambulatory -->1) Ambulatory and 2)Ambulatory Transport

The goal is to match the first one only?

Op donderdag 20 oktober 2016 06:11:29 UTC+2 schreef พอ สุวพรหม:

Praveen Kumar

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Oct 20, 2016, 12:21:43 PM10/20/16

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try using exact match in xpath instead of contains //table[@id='tblCoverageGroupsForPlan']/tbody/tr/td[text()='Ambulatory']

Patrik911

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Oct 21, 2016, 3:49:46 AM10/21/16

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Well for some reason this does not find the node.

If i am not mistaken this is because text also returns the text of the children in this case of the span element and maybe also due to the spaces and linefeeds in the html?