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

Question

   Ethical standards and patient consent
   Ethical standards and patient
            


        

Answer 1

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)
         ]