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shivamsupr
shivamsupr

Reputation: 480

XPath to retrieve text within span

I am trying to figure out the XPath which will retrieve the 'text Data 3' from the following HTML snippet

  <span class="inner-span">
    Text-data 1
    <br>
    <span>Text Data 2</span> text Data 3
   </span>

So far i have tried the following Xpath which leads me to the span with class 'inner-span'

 /html/body/div/div[4]/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/span[@class="inner-span"]

But dont know what to add more to Xpath which will only give me text 'text Data 3' from above Html snippet. Thanks

Upvotes: 7

Views: 70983

Answers (2)

Rolando Isidoro
Rolando Isidoro

Reputation: 5104

For your particular case this XPath query would work:

normalize-space(//span[@class="inner-span"]/text()[last()])

Tried it in this online tester and here's the result:

  1. Your HTML;
  2. My XPath expression;
  3. The expected result "text Data 3".

enter image description here

Upvotes: 15

Martin Honnen
Martin Honnen

Reputation: 167726

You could select /html/body/div/div[4]/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/span[@class="inner-span"]/text()[last()] to get the text node (though with leading and trailing white space) or you can use an XPath returning a string with normalize-space(/html/body/div/div[4]/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/span[@class="inner-span"]/text()[last()]).

Upvotes: 1

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