Is there any way to just search the whole html document for a piece of text without worrying about tags, classes etc?
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Yes, something like this :
//text()[contains(.,'keyword')]
Or, use one of the following XPath if you prefer to return parent element where the target keyword resides :
//*[text()[contains(.,'keyword')]]
//text()[contains(.,'keyword')]/..
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1Only limitation with this is that the string must be contained in a single text node: so no internal markup. – Michael Kay May 16 '17 at 15:30
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This XPath,
contains(/,'keyword')
will return true if keyword is contained anywhere in the string value of the document.
Note it could match substrings conjoined across elements (i.e. <r>key<b>word</b></r>), which may or may not be desirable. If undesirable, see @har07's answer (+1).
