I am trying to understand the difference between
//*[.] and //*[*]
These return different number of elements.
Also where I can use the dot instead of attribute
//tag[@Attribute="value"]
Not just in case of text? And what does the syntax look like? Because I tried
//tag[@.="value"] and //tag[.="value"]
and the last one only worked in case of text but not instead of case
//tag[@id="value"]
for example, so when can I change the dot instead of attribute?
//*[.] will select all elements. It is equivalent to //*.
//*[*] will select all elements that have at least one child element.
//tag[@.="value"] is syntactically invalid.
//tag[.="value"] will select all tag elements whose string value equals value. For example, for this XML,
<tag id="r">
<tag id="a">value</tag>
<tag id="b">val<br/>ue</tag>
<tag id="c"><span>val</span><span>ue</span></tag>
<tag id="f"> value</tag>
<tag id="g">Value</tag>
</tag>
//tag[.="value"] will select
<tag id="a">value</tag>
<tag id="b">val<br/>ue</tag>
<tag id="c"><span>val</span><span>ue</span></tag>
