I'm looking for the right xpath syntax to get a specific parent of an element. Example:
root
|- div
| |
| |----??? ---|
| | |-a [class=1]
| | |- text[ A TEXT I DON'T WANT]
| |
| |
| |
| |-text[THE TEXT]
|
|-div
| |-text[THE TEXT I DON'T WANT]
|
|-div
| |-text[THE TEXT I DON'T WANT]
I want to get the text "THE TEXT" but the one that contains a [class=1]
inside the same div. Something like this:
//div//a[@class=1]/text[contains(.,'A TEXT')]/parent::*/parent::*.... <till div element> /text
Given the XML
<?xml version="1.0"?> <root> <foo id="id1"> <foo id="i2"> <baz/> </foo> </foo> </root>
You can find the nearest ancestor foo element from baz using the XPath expression:
//baz/ancestor::foo[1]
Which will select the foo element node of id "i2".
So in your example (if I understand right) once you have got the "a" element you want, you can get "back up" the tree to the nearest ancestor div by appending "/ancestor::div[1]" to your expression.