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neenkart
neenkart

Reputation: 156

Xpath to get only first text tag and ignore break tag before it

I checked for similar questions and but I couldn't find answer for mine.

I need to collect the text value comes inside a h1 tag, as per the example value "text1", which comes in 3 different situation. I am sharing all 3 html codes below:

First Case:

<h1 class="h1">
    text1
    <br> 
    <span>text2</span>
</h1>

Second Case:

<h1 class="h1">
    <span>text1</span>
</h1>

Third Case:

<h1 class="h1">
    <br> 
    text1
    <span>text2</span>
</h1>

I used the xpath

//h1[@class="h1"]/text()[1]|//h1[@class="h1"]/span[1]

But it select the <br> tag in the third case. Is there anyway, I can ignore the break tag and get the text1 value in all 3 cases?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 609

Answers (1)

zx485
zx485

Reputation: 29022

Try this:

//h1/descendant-or-self::text()[normalize-space()][1]

It selects the first descending text node of h1 that is not empty or contains only whitespace.

Upvotes: 1

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