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user4918296
user4918296

Reputation:

XPath to identify text in html

I have the following structure in an HTML document:

<li>
<b>fixed_keyword:</b> varying_text</li>

I want to get the varying_text part to print with xmllint. I have tried

xmllint --html --xpath "(//li[/b[text()='fixed_keyword:']]/text())"
xmllint --html --xpath "(//li)/b[text()='fixed_keyword:']/text()"
xmllint --html --xpath "(//li[text()='fixed_keyword:'])/text()"

and many more but nothing has worked so far.

What is the correct xpath expression to print varying_text?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 67

Answers (1)

alecxe
alecxe

Reputation: 473863

You need the following-sibling axis:

//li/b[. = 'fixed_keyword:']/following-sibling::text()

Note that you don't have : in the input HTML.

Upvotes: 1

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