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Sample XPath to get node by it's content
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xpath.js
// Get a node whose content starts with (optional spaces) "Doing"
// Available functions : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XPath/Functions
// (regex with matches are not available, XPath 2.0, only normalized still 2007 :S )
evaluation = document.evaluate("//*[starts-with(normalize-space(.), 'Doing')]", document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue
evaluation = document.evaluate("//h2[contains(., 'part')]", document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue
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