Xpath finding in the html code

Question

I am trying to get the Xpath of the following. I am trying to get the name of the location. 'London' from this div tag. I use \h4\a as Xpath but i am unable to do so. Any suggestions on how to specify correct Xpath?

 <h4><a href="www.example.com" tile="Click here">London</a></h4>

Answer 1

You can use the XML package, applying XPath to grab the text from that node.

library(XML)
res <- xpathSApply(htmlParse(doc), '//h4/a', xmlValue)

Or the shorthand version:

res <- doc['//h4/a/text()'][[1]]