XPath: how to select nodes by IN condition?

Question

Is it possible to select nodes in a similar way?

'./tr[position() in (1, 3, 7)]'

I found only this solution:

'./tr[position() = 1 or position() = 3 or position() = 7]'

possible duplicate of [XPath "in" operator](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13871250/xpath-in-operator) — har07, Sep 23 '14 at 07:01

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 23 '14 at 07:24

In XPath 2.0 you would simply do:

./tr[position = (1,3,7)]

In XPath 1.0 the usual way to do it is the solution you already found, an alternative that is a bit shorter would be something like:

./tr[contains('1 3 7', position())]

The spaces in the string are essential here, otherwise you'd also get nodes 13,37 and 137.

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