XPath query with descendant and descendant text() predicates

Question

I would like to construct an XPath query that will return a \"div\" or \"table\" element, so long as it has a descendant containing the text \"abc\". The one caveat is that it

Answer 1

you could try:

//div[
  descendant::text()[contains(., "abc")] 
  and not(descendant::div or descendant::table)
] | 
//table[
  descendant::text()[contains(., "abc")] 
  and not(descendant::div or descendant::table)
]

does that help?