How can I check if the text of an attribute Contains a partial argument title (case insensitive)?

Question

I'm building a roll-up for Selenium using the following Xpath:

//a[contains(@title, "(' + args.Code + ')")]

//a[@title=\'' + args.Code + '\']

However I need this argument to be case insensitive so that whoever runs my script cannot mess up by adding an uppercase or lowercase letter.

It is important to mention that the key/property Code will change depending on what the user will write at the beginning of the roll-up.

I have been trying to find a solution but haven't find any yet. Does anyone have an idea how?

Answer 1

From this very similar question, one of the answers, by kjhughes, offers these solutions :

XPath 2.0 Solutions

1. Use lower-case():
   /html/body//text()[contains(lower-case(.),'test')]
2. Use matches() regex matching with its case-insensitive flag:
   /html/body//text()[matches(.,'test', 'i')]

So taking the first approach (i.e. lower-case()) with your examples:

//a[contains(lower-case(@title), "(' + lower-case(args.Code) + ')")]

//a[lower-case(@title)=\'' + lower-case(args.Code) + '\']

Update

From this answer:

upper-case() and lower-case() are XPath 2.0 functions. Chances are your platform supports XPath 1.0 only¹

Try the first solution (as suggested in the answer by Tomalak):

//a[contains(translate(@title, \'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\', \'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\'), "(translate(' + args.Code + ', \'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\', \'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\')")]

//a[translate(@title, \'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\', \'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\')=translate(\'' + args.Code + '\', \'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\', \'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\') ]

Unfortunately, this requires knowledge of the alphabet the text uses. For plain English, the above probably works, but if you expect accented characters, make sure you add them to the list.¹

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¹_{https://stackoverflow.com/a/1625859/1575353}