First create an xpath selector function.
function _x(STR_XPATH) {
var xresult = document.evaluate(STR_XPATH, document, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null);
var xnodes = [];
var xres;
while (xres = xresult.iterateNext()) {
xnodes.push(xres);
}
return xnodes;
}
To use the xpath selector with jquery, you can do like this:
$(_x('/html/.//div[@id="text"]')).attr('id', 'modified-text');
Hope this can help.