# XPATH for Dummies

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**Category:** Dev/API Corner\
**Tags:** plugin-dev\
**Created:** [October 2, 2013, 4:16pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/xpath-for-dummies/43852 "2013-10-02T16:16:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 12:09am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/xpath-for-dummies/43852/4 "2013-11-09T00:09:42Z")

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I just found a new trick for using the contains command in xpath. When you want to find two separate strings that occur in an attribute of a tag. &nbsp;You just write two different contains and use and/or in between.

Example:

```
url = html.xpath('//li[contains(@class,"-navigation") and contains(@class,"-right")]/a//@href')[0]
```

The example above will look for a

- One thing I found is that there can be no overlap in the characters used in each strings. In the example above, I first tried to use:

- &nbsp;'-navigation-right'

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