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pythonhtmlxpath
g0m3z
g0m3z

Reputation: 729

xpath expression to get only text content of node for dynamic content

I'm trying to catch content of <div class="num"> without child element from the below HTML code:

<div class="num">
   <del>14,490</del>
   13,490
</div>

So I'm expecting 13,490 as result.

I use the following xpath expression for that:

//div[@class="num"]/node()[not(self::del)]

which works fine for this example, but the problem is that the content of the div may vary and sometimes it doesn't contain the child element.

I'm using Python and can handle this on coding level but I'm curious whether this can be done by xpath only.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 687

Answers (1)

alecxe
alecxe

Reputation: 474161

You can just get the text():

//div[@class="num"]/text()

Demo (using xmllint):

$ xmllint index.html --xpath '//div[@class="num"]/node()[not(self::del)]'
13,490
$ xmllint index.html --xpath '//div[@class="num"]/text()'
13,490

This would also work if there is no del tag:

<div class="num">
   13,490
</div>

Upvotes: 3

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