Question

Assuming the following XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
    <info>
        <code>
            ABC
        </code>
        <desc>
            A
        </desc>
    </info>
    <info>
        <code>
            DEF
        </code>
        <desc>
            A
        </desc>
    </info>
    <info>
        <code>
            XYZ
        </code>
        <desc>
            B
        </desc>
    </info>
</root>

How can I select all of the code elements that have a desc value of ‘A’?

I tried the following XPath, and it gave me nothing:

/root/info[desc='A']

Answer 1

Like @Jim Garrison said, you’ll need to use normalize-space() on <desc> but you can pretty much keep the xpath that you had with the addition of /code (and normalize-space())

/root/info[normalize-space(desc)='A']/code