Dynamic Text/String in an XPATH

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Hi

Anyone knows how I can iterate a text/string in an XPATH

EX:
//span[contains(text(),‘Analytics & Machine Learning’)]

The part of Analytics & Machine Learning will always be changing with a list of Data sets.

Sorry I don’t know if that is possible, I’m bit new with automation and in Katalon. Hope you can help me. TY

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We may need more information to give you a better idea, such as how many different Data sets. I ask this because it would be simple to create a new TestObject for a run putting in the different xpaths within a CASE block. The concern is how many blocks; a few and this method would be okay. Too many and then you would need to read the pathways in from a source and build that way.

TestObject myNewObject = new TestObject('')
switch(expression) { 
   case exp1:
        myNewObject.setSelectorValue(SelectorMethod.XPATH,'//span[contains(text(),"Analytics & Machine Learning")]')

  case exp2: 
        myNewObject.setSelectorValue(SelectorMethod.XPATH,'//span[contains(text(),"Men & Their Flying Machines")]')

   default:
        myNewObject.setSelectorValue(SelectorMethod.XPATH,'//span[contains(text(),"Some where")]')
}

myNewObject.setSelectorMethod(SelectorMethod.XPATH)
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for(String text : listOfTexts) {
    String xpath = "//span[contains(text(),'" + text + "')]";
}