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Does Xpath standard support null value in attribute

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xml

xpath

for example is the following xpath string valid:

/web:input_text[@value=null]

which means the element doest not has a value attribute.

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Ben Xu Avatar asked Sep 27 '11 09:09

Ben Xu


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This XPath returns web:input_text which don't have value attribute:

/web:input_text[not(@value)]

XPath /web:input_text[@value=null] selects web:input_text which have value of value attribute = null node.

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Kirill Polishchuk Avatar answered Sep 26 '22 14:09

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