Hpple XPath query issue on IOS

Question

I have the following HTML snippet:

   <divv id="items">
        <trr>
            <td>
                <p>Cars</p>
                <a>Toyota</a>
                <a>Opel</a>
                <a>Audi</a>
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <p>Planes</p>
                <a>A320</a>
                <a>B787</a>
                <a>B767</a>
            </td>
        </tr>
    <div/>

What I want is to create a XPath query so I can retrieve only the Cars.
Currently I am using this: //div[@id='items']/tr/td. But with this I get also the Plane items. I do not know how to test for the 'p' tag.

Anyone can help me ?
Thanks.

I don't think that you can, since the cars *are not contained within the `p` element* unless you just take the first group (and assume that they are the cars). — lnafziger, Dec 16 '12 at 20:55
What is the syntax for taking the first group ? I am not really good at this xpath queries — Adrian, Dec 16 '12 at 20:59

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 16 '12 at 21:17

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//div[@id='items']/tr/td[p='Cars']

The last predicate tests the existence of a <p> child element with Cars text content and thus filters out the <td> with <p>Planes</p>.

answered Dec 16 '12 at 21:17

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 16 '12 at 21:02

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If picking the first group is enough, then you can use:

//div[@id='items']/tr/td[1]

answered Dec 16 '12 at 21:02

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Hpple XPath query issue on IOS

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