XML XPath - 仅在满足子条件时选择父文本

Question

I am working on a project that requires getting the text from a parent element without getting the text from the decedents only if the title attribute exists in the child element.

In the example below, I need to get the text '1999' from the li element, if and only if, the title attribute exists in the child anchor ( li/i/a/@title ), is this possible? thanks in advance

This is what I tried initially, but this wont work for my use case... //ul/li/text()[last()] , also tried //ul/li/text()

<ul>
  <li>
      <i>
        <a href="#apples" title="apples">
          Apples
        </a>
      </i> (1999)
  </li>
</ul>

Answer 1

This XPath,

//li[.//a/@title]/text()[last()]

will return the last text node child of those li elements with a descendant a that has a @title attribute:

(1999)

as requested.

_{Credit : Simplified [.//a[@title]] to [.//a/@title] per helpful suggestion by Allan .}