XPath conditional text node selection
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Hi there. I need to construct an xpath string to select all descendants of a certain table with these conditions:
- The table is a descendant of a form with a specific actionattribute value.
- The selected descendants are text nodes.
- The text node content can only contain whitespace.
It'll probably look something like:
//form[@action = "submit.html"]//table//text()[ ...? ]
Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks.
Edit: For clarity, here is my current (working) compromise:
function KillTextNodes(rootpath)
{
    XPathIterate(rootpath + '//text()', function(node)
    {
        var tagname = node.parentNode.tagName;
        if (tagname != 'OPTION' && tagname != 'TH')
            Kill(node);
    });
}
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