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hungryhippos
hungryhippos

Reputation: 637

Unable to exclude the last element in xpath

I have roughly the following html:

<div class="form-group row">
        <label class="control-label col-md-2 font-weight-bold text-right" for="Name">Name</label>
        <div class="col-md-10">
            <input class="form-control text-box single-line valid" data-val="true" id="Name" name="Name" type="text" value="Mark" 
            <span class="text-danger field-validation-valid"</span>
        </div>
    </div>
<div class="form-group row">
        <label class="control-label col-md-2 font-weight-bold text-right" for="Address">Address</label>
        <div class="col-md-10">
            <input class="form-control text-box single-line valid" data-val="true" id="Address" name="Address" type="text" value="101 Windmere" 
            <span class="text-danger field-validation-valid"</span>
        </div>
    </div>
<div class="form-group row">
        <label class="control-label col-md-2 font-weight-bold text-right" for="Notes">Notes</label>
        <div class="col-md-10">
            <input class="form-control text-box single-line valid" data-val="true" id="Notes" name="Notes" type="text" value="Sample note goes here" 
            <span class="text-danger field-validation-valid"</span>
        </div>
    </div>
<div class="form-group row">
        <label class="control-label col-md-2 font-weight-bold text-right" for="Award">Award</label>
        <div class="col-md-10">
            <input class="form-control text-box single-line valid" data-val="true" id="Award" name="Award" type="text" value="20" 
            <span class="text-danger field-validation-valid"</span>
        </div>
    </div>

As you may be able to tell, I am dealing with a form table of sorts. I am trying to iterate over this and grab all the values. I need all the instances of "col-md-10" except the last one (Award). So I am using the following xpath:

//div[@class = 'col-md-10'][position()<4]

However, it keeps finding all four instances and doesn't stop at 3. No matter what number I put in for position. Even if I do [position()<1], it finds all four.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 62

Answers (1)

Jack Fleeting
Jack Fleeting

Reputation: 24940

The <span> tags in your html aren't closed properly (they should be <span/>). That aside, the following expression should get you there:

(//div[@class = 'col-md-10'])[position()<4]

Upvotes: 1

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