XPath with multiple conditions
Use:
/category[@name='Sport' and author/text()[1]='James Small']or use:
/category[@name='Sport' and author[starts-with(.,'James Small')]]It is a good rule to try to avoid using the // pseudo-operator whenever possible, because its evaluation can typically be very slow.
Also:
./somenameis equivalent to:
somenameso it is recommended to use the latter.
question is not clear, but what i understand you need to select a catagory that has name attribute and should have child author with value specified , correct me if i am worng
here is a xpath
//category[@name='Required value'][./author[contains(.,'Required value')]]e.g//category[@name='Sport'][./author[contains(.,'James Small')]]