xpath to access different links which xml,html,pdf as linktext

Question

• When I search with input a -- the page displays me a link with linktest html.
• When I search with input b -- the page displays me a link with linktest xml.
• When I search with input c -- the page displays me a link with linktest pdf.

I have different linktests for different inputs

on locating the link element, the xpath shows

//*[contains(text(),'html')]
//*[contains(text(),'xml')]
//*[contains(text(),'pdf')]

I need generic xpath. Tried by.tagName("a") any other way other than preceeding and following logic.

Answer 1

You can use logical expressions in xpath, like and or or. So to match an element with text: pdf, html or xml you could use a following exception:

//a[contains(text(),'html') or contains(text(),'xml') or contains(text(),'pdf')]