Question

I would like to be able to find an element named ‘test’ with no attributes at all.

How can I do that using XPATH?

If i just query for /test it finds me all the test elements even with the ones that contain attributes.

example:

<main>
<test id="test1">txt</test>
<test>txt2</test>
</main>

Querying for //test will find me both of the elements. I want only the one that contains no attributes. I can query for //test[not(@id)] but I was wondering if there is a command for an element with no attributes at all.

Answer 1

You almost had it. If you want to find the the test element(s) that have no attributes at all, use a wildcard match for the attribute name in your predicate filter:

//test[not(@*)]