How to use starts-with() , contains() and ends-with() in XPath to find the xml node innertext? in XPATH 1.0

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<ArticleBackmatter>
   <Heading>Ethical standards and patient consent</Heading>
   <Heading>Ethical standards and patient</Heading>
   <Heading>standards and patient consent</Heading>
</ArticleBackmatter>

I want to get the inner text with start from "Ethical" , contains "and " and end with "consent" in the Heading node.

What version of XPath (or what tool/library/language if you don't know the version for sure)? `starts-with` is available in XPath 1.0 but `ends-with` was only introduced by XPath 2.0 (you have to fake it with `substring` and `string-length` in 1.0). — Ian Roberts, Oct 06 '14 at 13:23
Your question is not clear: what is the expected result of your example? — michael.hor257k, Oct 06 '14 at 13:31
Do you only want `Ethical standards and patient consent` if that is the entirety of the content of a text node? Or do you want that string even if there is other text before/after it? — LarsH, Oct 06 '14 at 13:50

score 29 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 14 '17 at 20:38

One possible way:

//Heading[starts-with(., 'Ethical') and ends-with(., 'consent')]

The ends-with() function is XPath 2.0. In XPath 1.0, it can be replaced using substring() and string-length(). Here is the equivalent XPath 1.0 (wrapped for readability):

//Heading[
            starts-with(., 'Ethical') 
                and 
            'consent' = substring(., string-length(.) - string-length('consent') +1)
         ]

How to use starts-with() , contains() and ends-with() in XPath to find the xml node innertext? in XPATH 1.0

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