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XPathExpression

This interface is a compiled XPath expression that can be evaluated on a document or specific node to return information from its DOM tree.

This is useful when an expression will be reused in an application, because it is just compiled once and all namespace prefixes which occur within the expression are preresolved.

Objects of this type are created by calling XPathEvaluator.createExpression().

Instance methods

XPathExpression.evaluate()

Evaluates the XPath expression on the given node or document.

Example

The following example shows the use of the XPathExpression interface.

HTML

html

<div>XPath example</div>
<div>Number of &lt;div&gt;s: <output></output></div>

JavaScript

js

const xpath = "//div";
const evaluator = new XPathEvaluator();
const expression = evaluator.createExpression(xpath);
const result = expression.evaluate(
  document,
  XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,
);
document.querySelector("output").textContent = result.snapshotLength;

Result

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
XPathExpression 1 12 1 No ≤12.1 3 4.4 18 4 ≤12.1 1 1.0
evaluate 1 12 1 No ≤12.1 3 4.4 18 4 ≤12.1 1 1.0

See also

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