Select a node with XPath whose child node contains a specific inner text

Question

Given the following XML:

    
abcText1cba
    
abcText2cba
         


        

Answer 1

Your current xpath should be correct. Here is an alternative but ugly one.

XmlNodeList nodes = doc.SelectNodes("//span/parent::li/span[contains(text(), 'Text1')]/parent::li");

We find all the span-tags. Then we find all the li-tags that has a span-tag as child and contains the 'Text1'.

OR simply:

//span[contains(text(), 'Text1')]/parent::li