XPath selection by innertext

Question

I\'m trying to extract an element with a particular innertext from a parsed XML document. I know that I can select an element that has a child with a particular innertext u

Answer 1

Have you tried this?

//myparent/mychild[text() = 'foo']

Alternatively, you can use the shortcut for the self axis:

//myparent/mychild[. = 'foo']

Answer 2

Matt said it, but the full solution:

//myparent[mychild='foo']/mychild

Answer 3

You might consider using the contains function to return true/false if the test was found like so:

//mychild[contains(text(),'foo')]

See XSLT, XPath, and XQuery Functions for functions reference