Parsing an XML document of text anywhere

Question

For an XML document, I want to be able to find all the elements/nodes that have a certain text 'abc' in it. This text will be primarily found in the attributes (property name='abc'). The thing is the attribute name will not be known beforehand so I cannot parse the exact attribute name. Is there any way to handle this easily?

I am using XPath, but I can only solve this problem if I know what the attribute name is. I want to find elements that have the text 'abc' without knowing the attributes and such.

Hi, please check the similar question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5074469/xpath-find-text-in-any-text-node — Artyom Rebrov, Jul 01 '19 at 18:50
this is not answering my question; i basically want to find all attributes that have a certain value. not the actual text field - i tried that solution already — kt-workflow, Jul 01 '19 at 18:55

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 01 '19 at 20:38

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Putting my answer here:

//*[text()='some_abc_text']

will get you whole node with its text.

answered Jul 01 '19 at 20:38

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 01 '19 at 21:10

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More precise XPath expression can point to attribute values only

//*[@*='abc']

answered Jul 01 '19 at 21:10

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Parsing an XML document of text anywhere

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