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Tushar Deora
Tushar Deora

Reputation: 1

Xpath for text between tag with space in between after every tag change

text is like

<tag>Head Office41-43 Ricketts Road<tag/> <tag>Mount Waverley, Melbourne<tag/>

iam getting result as

Head Office41-43 Ricketts RoadMount Waverley, Melbourne

but i want it as

Head Office41-43 Ricketts Road Mount Waverley, Melbourne

code i am using is

response.xpath('string(normalize-space(//*/text()[contains(normalize-space(), "{}")]/../..))'.format(marker))

where marker is the text.

so instead of RoadMount I want Road Mount

see the tag wrapped: enter image description here

this is the code iam using enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

Views: 198

Answers (1)

Granitosaurus
Granitosaurus

Reputation: 21446

Your xpath is returning multiple values - all you have to do is join them with a separator:

xpath = 'string(normalize-space(//*/text()[contains(normalize-space(), "{}")]/../..))'.format(marker))
results = " ".join(response.xpath(xpath).getall())
#                                        ^^^^^^^^
# note: don't forget to use getall to retrieve all results
print(results)

Upvotes: 1

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