XPATH：排除具有特定子元素的元素

Question

<ul>
  <li><a></li>
  <li><a></li>
  <li>
    <div>
      <a>
    </div>
  </li>
</ul>

How can I select only first 2 li items and exclude li that contains div inside?

Considering ul is set as parent, I've tried

./li[not(contains(descendant::div]

But obviously that didn't work

Answer 1

Remove the contains and use // instead of ./

//li[not(descendant::div)]

Answer 2

Xpath that searches for li tags that has not div child:

//li[not(descendant::div)]

another option:

//li[not(.//div)]

To exclude some elements from selection - use not() method like locator[not(condition)]

Some more complex example on this table https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_table.asp : here is locator that gets row that has not elements inside with text that starts with "C"

//table[@id='customers']//tr[not(.//*[starts-with(text(),'C')])]

explanation:

//table[@id='customers']//tr - get all rows

[not(.//*[...])] - not containing element with specific attribute

[starts-with(text(),'C')] - and that the described attribute

Answer 3

//li[not(contains(div,' '))]

This works for me.

your code:

./li[not(contains(descendant::div]

is missing some ')', should have been:

./li[not(contains(descendant::div))]