Python: Selenium xpath to find element with case insensitive characters?

Question

I am able to do this

search = \"View List\"
driver.find_elements_by_xpath(\"//*/text()[normalize-space(.)=\'%s\']/parent::*\" % search)

but I n

Answer 1

The lower-case() function is only supported from XPath 2.0. For XPath 1.0 you will have to use translate().

Example code is given in this stackoverflow answer.

Edit: The selenium python bindings site has a FAQ - Does Selenium 2 supports XPath 2.0 ?:

Ref: http://seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.html#how-xpath-works-in-webdriver

Selenium delegate XPath queries down to the browser’s own XPath engine, so Selenium support XPath supports whatever the browser supports. In browsers which don’t have native XPath engines (IE 6,7,8), Selenium support XPath 1.0 only.