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Jakub M.
Jakub M.

Reputation: 33847

XPath - get <img> that is not inside <a>

With XPath, how to select all the images that are not inside <a> tag?

For example, here:

<a href='foo'> <img src='bar'/> </a>
<img src='ham' />

I should get "ham" image as a result. To get the first image, I would use \\a\\img. Is there anything like \\not(a)\\img ?

I use python + lxml so python hacks are welcome, if pure xpath would be to hairy.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 163

Answers (1)

Tomalak
Tomalak

Reputation: 338316

That's easily done with

//img[not(ancestor::a)]

Read the spec on XPath axes if you want to find out about the other ones besides ancestor.

Upvotes: 4

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