how i can getting xpath address of a string in html code?

[mikhak]

Hi

 

i want know how i can getting a xpath address
of a string in html code. for example i want finding xpath of YES in this html code :

<div><div>
<div><div>
   <div>
      <p>NO</p>
        <div>
           <p>a text</p>
        </div>
   </div>
</div>
<div>
   <div>
      <p>YES</p>
        <div>
           <p>b text</p>
        </div>
   </div>
</div></div>
</div></div>

i used the http://php.net/manual/en/domnode.getnodepath.php but thats only work with tag name and not working with a word or text searching in a string.

 

i want getting like this result finally :

/html/body/div/div/div/div[2]/div/p

how i can doing like that ?

and is it possible doint that with php simple_html_dom parser ?

 

Thanks.

[requinix]

Find the node using whatever you want, then call getNodePath(). Or are you trying to violate causality by using the path to the node to get to the node in the first place?

[mikhak]

Find the node using whatever you want, then call getNodePath(). Or are you trying to violate causality by using the path to the node to get to the node in the first place?

 

Find the node using whatever you want, then call getNodePath()

how can do this ?

[requinix]

Is it the only

in the document whose value is "YES"? Then

//p[.="YES"]

Which is, conveniently, an XPath "address" to the node.

[mikhak]

Is it the only <p> in the document whose value is "YES"? Then

//p[.="YES"]

Which is, conveniently, an XPath "address" to the node.

 

 

No i dont know 'yes' word in p tag mybe span tag or h1 or h2 or another tag i want having xpath according of only word not tag and word.  this is //p[.=YES] tag and word together.

 

thank you for help.

[requinix]

Okay, so can you at least say the entire element's value is "YES"?

//*[.="YES"]

You should also consider actually learning XPath.

[hansford]

$html ="<div><div>

<div><div>

   <div>

      <span>YES</span>

        <div>

           <p>b text</p>

        </div>

   </div>

   <div>

      <p>NO</p>

        <div>

           <p>a text</p>

        </div>

   </div>

</div>

<div>

   <div>

      <p>YES</p>

        <div>

           <p>b text</p>

        </div>

   </div>

</div></div>

</div></div>";


$dom = new DOMDocument();


$dom->loadHTML($html);


$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);


foreach($xpath->query('//*[.="YES"]') as $node)

{

    echo $node->getNodePath() . '<br />';

}

Edited September 23, 2015 by hansford