Invalid HtmlAgilityPack XPath Token

Question

An invalid invalid token exception occurs. An exception is not thrown every time, and XPath is static. Not sure what is going on.

doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//*[contains(@itemprop,'softwareVersion')]");

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Message:

'//*[contains(@itemprop,'softwareVersion')]' has an invalid token.


StackTrace:

at MS.Internal.Xml.XPath.XPathParser.CheckToken(LexKind t)
at MS.Internal.Xml.XPath.XPathParser.ParsePredicate(AstNode qyInput)
at MS.Internal.Xml.XPath.XPathParser.ParseStep(AstNode qyInput)
at MS.Internal.Xml.XPath.XPathParser.ParseRelativeLocationPath(AstNode qyInput)
at MS.Internal.Xml.XPath.XPathParser.ParseLocationPath(AstNode qyInput)
at MS.Internal.Xml.XPath.XPathParser.ParsePathExpr(AstNode qyInput)
at MS.Internal.Xml.XPath.XPathParser.ParseUnionExpr(AstNode qyInput)
at MS.Internal.Xml.XPath.XPathParser.ParseUnaryExpr(AstNode qyInput)
at MS.Internal.Xml.XPath.XPathParser.ParseMultiplicativeExpr(AstNode qyInput)
at MS.Internal.Xml.XPath.XPathParser.ParseAdditiveExpr(AstNode qyInput)
at MS.Internal.Xml.XPath.XPathParser.ParseRelationalExpr(AstNode qyInput)
at MS.Internal.Xml.XPath.XPathParser.ParseEqualityExpr(AstNode qyInput)
at MS.Internal.Xml.XPath.XPathParser.ParseAndExpr(AstNode qyInput)
at MS.Internal.Xml.XPath.XPathParser.ParseOrExpr(AstNode qyInput)
at MS.Internal.Xml.XPath.XPathParser.ParseXPathExpresion(String xpathExpresion)
at System.Xml.XPath.XPathExpression.Compile(String xpath, IXmlNamespaceResolver nsResolver)
at System.Xml.XPath.XPathNavigator.Select(String xpath)
at HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlNode.SelectSingleNode(String xpath)

I also see this sometimes for this, with the same invalid token exception

doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//*[contains(@class,'item')]");

Answer 1

Try without the "*":

doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//[contains(@itemprop,'softwareVersion')]");