Question

I want to get the node :

//script[starts-with(text(). ‘\r\nvar name’)]

but it seems xpath does not recognize \r\n escape characters. Any ideas how to match them?

Note: I am using html agility pack

Answer 1

Use:

//script[starts-with(., '
var name')]

Most often XML is normalized by the XML parser and there is only a single NL character left — therefore, if the above expression doesn’t select the wanted script elements, try with:

//script[starts-with(., '
var name')]

Or, this would work in both cases:

//script
    [(starts-with(., '
') or starts-with(., '
'))
   and
    starts-with(substring-after(., '
'), 'var name')
    ]