Question

I want to use Wildcards in my attributes. For example, this is my regular XPath:

//input[@id='activation:j_idt84:voId:1']`

I want to replace the j_idt number with a wildcard because the number is dynamic. I’m looking for something like this:

//input[@id='activation:*:voId:1']

I don’t know how to solve that issue. Is my idea even possible?

Answer 1

Unfortunately there’s no string wildcards in XPath. However you can use multiple contains() and starts-with() to filter things like this.

//input[starts-with(@id, 'activation:') and contains(@id, ':voId:1')]

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