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We can extract all the elements that match the given text value using the XPath contains() function throughout the webpage.
The XPath default axis is child , so your predicate [*/android.widget.TextView[@androidXtext='Microwaves']] is equivalent to [child::*/child::android.widget.TextView[@androidXtext='Microwaves']] This predicate will select nodes with a android. widget. TextView grandchild and the specified attribute.
Single Slash “/” – Single slash is used to create Xpath with absolute path i.e. the xpath would be created to start selection from the document node/start node.
To define an XPath expression that checks if a string element is empty, you must use the operator != . This example shows how to define an XPath expression that evaluates to true when a repeating element, which is referred to as a sequence, is empty. The effective Boolean value of an empty sequence is false.
The XPath spec. defines the string value of an element as the concatenation (in document order) of all of its text-node descendents.
This explains the "strange results".
"Better" results can be obtained using the expressions below:
//*[text() = 'qwerty']
The above selects every element in the document that has at least one text-node child with value 'qwerty'.
//*[text() = 'qwerty' and not(text()[2])]
The above selects every element in the document that has only one text-node child and its value is: 'qwerty'.
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//*[text()='qwerty'] because . is your current element
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