XPath contains one of multiple values

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I have simple xpath

 /products/product[contains(categorie,'Kinderwagens')]

It works but now how do I filter on multiple categorie values

like

/products/product[contains(categorie,'Kinderwagens')]  +  
/products/product[contains(categorie,'Kinderwagens')]

score 91 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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Will this work?

/products/product[contains(categorie,'Kinderwagens') or contains(categorie,'Wonderwagens')]

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edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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answered Aug 28 '12 at 05:10

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The question is about OR, isn't it? – imz -- Ivan Zakharyaschev Aug 28 '12 at 06:40
Note to self. Update answer with 5 more years of XPath advancement. – vhs Sep 30 '17 at 13:05

score 19 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 28 '12 at 08:30

Do you really want contains()? Very often, people use contains() to test whether a node contains a value when they should be using "=". The difference is that if the categorie element has the string value 'Kinderwagens', then categorie = 'wagens' is false but contains(categorie, 'wagens') is true.

If you actually intended '=', then in XPath 2.0 you can write [categorie = ('Kinderwagens', 'Wonderwagens')]. If you're still using XPath 1.0, you need two separate comparisons with an 'or'.

Submitted [new question](https://stackoverflow.com/q/46503195/712334) for use with attribute values. — vhs, Sep 30 '17 at 13:36

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 14 '21 at 16:14

There are many ways:

//*[contains(text(), 'Kinderwagens') or contains(text(), 'Kinderwagens')]
//product[contains(text(), 'Kinderwagens') or contains(text(), 'Kinderwagens')]
//products/product[contains(text(), 'Kinderwagens') or contains(text(), 'Kinderwagens')]
//products/product[contains(categorie, 'Kinderwagens') or contains(categorie, 'Kinderwagens')]

Note: | (Bitwise OR) operator don't be use

score -3 · Answer 4 · edited Mar 08 '19 at 06:37

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You can pass the multiple text as like below

//a[contains(text(),'JB-' | 'ABC')]

edited Mar 08 '19 at 06:37

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answered Mar 08 '19 at 06:19

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This didn't work for me. The xpath needs to be edited slightly like this: `//a[contains(text(),'JB-') or contains(text(), 'ABC')]` – SandstormNick Aug 13 '19 at 11:50

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