Xpath doesn't see text inside paragraph

Xpath doesn't work for text() for paragraph(

) content but works fine for div. Example:

<div>
<p>
123
123
some_text
</p>
<div>

Xpath:

//*[contains(text(), 'some_text')]

Result:

Nothing has been found

Working example:

<div>
123
123
some_text
<div>

Result:

The element div is founded by xpath

or with changed xpath:

<div>
<p>
123
123
some_text
</p>
<div>
xpath: 
//*[contains(., 'some_text')]

Result:

The element p is founded by the changed xpath

Browsers:

• Chrome(webdriver)
• Opera

The functions contains expects as it's first argument a single string.
I suppose in your case there can be several text-nodes inside a element. Therefore it fails.

You have two options:

Use the "." notation , that will join all text in a element to one string, like this:

//*[contains(., 'some_text')]

Or use this Xpath:

//*[text()[contains(., 'some_text')]]