Xpath finding in the html code

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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>

here is the code plain.text <- xpathSApply(doc, "//h4/a", xmlValue) — user3570187
– user3570187, Commented Aug 1, 2015 at 23:36

hwnd · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-02 00:59:08Z

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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]]

edited Aug 2, 2015 at 0:59

answered Aug 2, 2015 at 0:38

hwnd

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