Xpath with regex in Robot Frameworks XML library

Question

I need to find all elements in huge xml, that has tag 'WOR' and attr distName.

Value matches

MNL-\d+/AAA-\d+

e.g. <WOR distName="MNL-123/AAA-4" /> Hovever i cannot figure out, how to properly use that in RFs XML Library, documentation does have no info about it too. I've tried to use Keyword 'Evaluate Xpath', but my search still is bad:

Library  XML  use_lxml=True
Evaluate Xpath  ${XML}  //WOR[re:match(@distName, "MNL-[0-9]+/AAA-[0-9]+")]

You should look in your documentation link for Finding elements with xpath, I think you might do something wrong. — lauda
– lauda, Commented Aug 24, 2017 at 10:22
Size of xml has nothing to issue. Finding elements with xpath was checked, but it's not same as finding elements with xpath using regex. There is no info about regex in xpath. — User007
– User007, Commented Aug 24, 2017 at 12:42

lauda · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-23 15:30:57Z

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You can try to compose xpath to match full or partial attribute value.

Full:

//WOR[@distName = 'MNL-123/AAA-4']

Partial with one part of the attribute:

//WOR[contains(@distName, 'MNL')]

Partial with two parts of the attribute:

//WOR[contains(@distName, 'MNL')][contains(@distName, 'AAA')]

answered Aug 23, 2017 at 15:30

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