How to write an XPath query to match two attributes?

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Following Question:

<div id="id-74385" class="guest clearfix" style="z-index: 999;">

Given above,

If I want a XPath expression with checks both id and class, can we do it w/ 'and' condition LIKE:

//div[@id='id-74385'] and div[@class='guest clearfix']

Is this correct way? My execution fails here... Please help!

score 273 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 20 '23 at 10:57

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//div[@id='...' and @class='...']

should do the trick. That's selecting the div operators that have both attributes of the required value.

It's worth using one of the online XPath testbeds to try stuff out.

edited Apr 20 '23 at 10:57

Ray

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answered Jan 05 '10 at 21:37

Brian Agnew

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Many of the online tools demand XML compliance. For HTML, it's easier to test with the browser's XPath implementation. Here's a [code sample](https://gist.github.com/jpaugh/a07b369e41c7ba03e8a729c8cb8cc122), together with a helper function to convert iterators into arrays. – jpaugh Sep 30 '20 at 16:42

score 127 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 07 '13 at 08:16

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or //div[@id='id-74385'][@class='guest clearfix']

edited Aug 07 '13 at 08:16

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answered Jan 05 '10 at 21:45

score 41 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 24 '17 at 10:04

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Adding to Brian Agnew's answer.

You can also do //div[@id='..' or @class='...] and you can have parenthesized expressions inside //div[@id='..' and (@class='a' or @class='b')].

answered Mar 24 '17 at 10:04

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 05 '13 at 05:44

Sample XML:

<X>
<Y ATTRIB1=attrib1_value ATTRIB2=attrib2_value/>
</X>

string xPath="/" + X + "/" + Y +
"[@" + ATTRIB1 + "='" + attrib1_value + "']" +
"[@" + ATTRIB2 + "='" + attrib2_value + "']"

XPath Testbed: http://www.whitebeam.org/library/guide/TechNotes/xpathtestbed.rhtm

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