Is it possible to write such an axis shorter?

Question

XPath

Good morning!

Condition: find the link only if it is around the image.

I write the condition self::a[descendant::img]:

Question for educational purposes: is it possible to write this condition shorter?

Thank you!

Answer 1

If the goal is to extract from the document all the links inside which are pictures, then the expression:
//a[descendant::img]
is the shortest, because there is no shorthand syntax for the descendant axis.