cheatsheets/xpath.md

Prefixes

//  anywhere              # //hr[@class='edge']
./  relative              # ./a
/   root                  # /html/body/div

Conditions ([])

                           # div[@class="head"]
                           # div[@class="head" and @id="top"]

contains()                 # font[contains(@class,"head")]
starts-with()              # font[starts-with(@class,"head")]
ends-with()                # font[ends-with(@class,"head")]

text()                     # button[text()="Submit"]
name()                     # div[child[name()='div']]
lang(str)
namespace-uri()

count()                    # table[count(tr)=1]
last()                     # tr[last()]
position()                 # ol/li[position()=2]

not(expr)

Axes

/   child                 # div/a   div[child::a]
//  descendant            # div//a
@   attribute             # input[@type="text"]
..  parent                # span[parent::[name()='div']]

    ancestor
    ancestor-or-self
    following
    following-sibling
    preceding
    preceding-sibling

Nesting

a[/span[@class="heading"]]