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Syntax

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//tag[@attribute="foo"]/tag//tag[contains(., 'text')]

Token	Description
`/`	[Axis] Select a child. If it is the first character, start from root.
`//`	[Axis] Select a descendant. If it is the first character, search through all nodes.
`div`	[Node] Select the nodes `div`. Can be any valid HTML tag name.
`*`	[Node] Select all nodes.
`..`	[Node] Select the parent node.
`[n]`	[Attribute] Select the `n`th element.
`@class`	[Attribute] Select an attribute. Can be any valid HTML attribute.
`.` `text()`	[Attribute] Select the text of an element.
`normalize-space()`	[Attribute] Same as `text()`, but trims and normalize whitespace.
`contains(target, text)`	[Attribute] Select elements that contains the given text.

Search by given tag and attribute name:

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//input[@type="search"]

Search for a class or classes:

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//div[contains(@class, "container")]
//a[contains(@class, "paginate_button") and contains(@class, "current")]

Search by displayed text:

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//a[contains(., "Home")]

Select the 1st element of a type:

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//div[1]
(//div//table)[1]

Search using conditions in various elements:

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div[./div[2][contains(., "title")] and ./div[3][contains(., "description")]]