Select text node by value

Question

Given the desire to use XPath to select an XML Text Node based on its value, is there a better way than:

//*[text()="foo"]/text()

I'm assuming that there's something like:

//text()[self="foo"]

...but I don't know what to put for self.

Answer 1

In XPath the period or dot character . is the self, also known as the "context node".

This query…

//text()[.="foo"]

…will select all text nodes with the value of "foo".