Question

Is it possible to do a ‘and’ condition in xpath like

//foo/bar/test[@val='hello'] and //foo/bar/new[@val='world']

This condition returns true for some reason and not any results. I’ve tried | but I don’t need an or statement.

The results should return all the elements from //foo (where the conditions match) – I need the root element because I’ll be pulling data out from different elements.

I’m using xpath to query an exist-db database

I need to put //foo[(position()> 3) and (position() < 6)] in there also.

Answer 1

If you want to get the foo elements, start the [] just after foo:

//foo[bar/test/@val='hello' and bar/new/@val='world']

If you want the children of foo, put the brackets there:

//foo/bar[test/@val='hello' and new/@val="world"]