[development] Xpath query for class matching

Domenic Santangelo domenic at workhabit.com
Fri Oct 2 20:00:29 UTC 2009


nitin gupta wrote:
> for eg <div class="foo"></div> is selected by the following query.
>
> $class = "foo";
> $xpath->query("//*[@class = '".$class."']");
>
> But, this fails in case of multiple classes, i.e. does not select this :
>
> <div class="foo bar"> </div>
The "contains" function would probably work, eg (untested):
$xpath->query("//div[contains(@class, '" . $class . "')]");

> One more question: is this url valid : http://xyz.com/path with space.html
Nope. You can escape the url if you just HAVE to have spaces:

http://n00b.com/path%20with%20space.html

but why not use dashes?

http://pro.com/path-with-properly-indexed-spaces.html

-Dom
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