Python: Selenium xpath to find element with case insensitive characters?

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I am able to do this

search = "View List"
driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//*/text()[normalize-space(.)='%s']/parent::*" % search)

but I need it to ignore and match all elements with text like: "VieW LiSt" or "view LIST"

search = "View List"
driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//*/lower-case(text())[normalize-space(.)='%s']/parent::*" % search.lower())

The above doesn't seem to work. lower-case() is in XPATH 1.0

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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The lower-case() function is only supported from XPath 2.0. For XPath 1.0 you will have to use translate().

Example code is given in this stackoverflow answer.

Edit: The selenium python bindings site has a FAQ - Does Selenium 2 supports XPath 2.0 ?:

Ref: http://seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.html#how-xpath-works-in-webdriver

Selenium delegate XPath queries down to the browser’s own XPath engine, so Selenium support XPath supports whatever the browser supports. In browsers which don’t have native XPath engines (IE 6,7,8), Selenium support XPath 1.0 only.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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answered Nov 26 '13 at 22:24

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anyway toget xpath 2.0 working in selenium python? that solution is really not optimal – I Love Python Nov 26 '13 at 23:19
Unfortunately no. xpath 2.0 needs to be supported by the browser, it is not a selenium/python limitation. – Faiz Nov 27 '13 at 00:10
this is what I'm thinking, use a javascript library that supports xpath 2.0 and inject it in python – I Love Python Nov 27 '13 at 02:21
Let us know how you go with that, I would be interested if that works. – Faiz Nov 27 '13 at 23:54
once I figure out how to inject jquery files into selenium python phantomjs – I Love Python Nov 28 '13 at 00:18

Oenomaus · Answer 2 · 2022-11-19T19:36:19.073

Since lower-case() is only supported in 2.0 I came up with this solution using translate() so I don't need to type the whole function manually everytime

translate = "translate({value},'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ','abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')"

driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, f"//*/{translate.format(value='text()')}[normalize-space(.)='{search.lower()}']/parent::*")

Which computes to:

>>> print(f"//*/{translate.format(value='text()')}[normalize-space(.)='{search.lower()}']/parent::*")
"//*/translate(text(),'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ','abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')[normalize-space(.)='view list']/parent::*"

Python: Selenium xpath to find element with case insensitive characters?

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