XPath selection by value

Question

I want to get a value of "square" (for example, 201). I tried to do so, as described here, but it doesn't work:

./li[attributeTitle='Этаж']

Html code:

<div class = "A">
    <ui class = "B">
        <li>
            <span class = "attributeTitle"> Floor </span>
            <span class = "attributeValue"> 3 </span>
        </li>
        <! A random more items "li" >
        <li>
            <span class = "attributeTitle"> Square </span>
            <span class = "attributeValue"> 201 </span>
        </li>
        <li>
            <span class = "attributeTitle"> Nrooms </span>
            <span class = "attributeValue"> 4 </span>
        </li>
    </ui>
</div>

Thanks for any help.

How is it working? What do you expect and what do you see instead? — Lajos Arpad
– Lajos Arpad, Commented Jan 26, 2017 at 15:22
Please show a complete, but minimal, input HTML document. Thanks. More help: stackoverflow.com/help/mcve. — Mathias Müller
– Mathias Müller, Commented Jan 26, 2017 at 15:27

Mathias Müller · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-26 15:26:25Z

1

You can use contains() function in xpath to check whether text contains some string:

"//div[@class='attributeTitle'][contains(text(),'Square')]"

This gets you this node:

<span class = "attributeTitle"> Square </span>

To get the value node that is right below it you can use following-sibling::span:

"//div[@class='attributeTitle'][contains(text(),'Square')]/following-sibling::span[1]"

And adding [1] to indicate that we want only the first sibling in case there are more than one sibling. You can also use [class='attributeValue'] instead to indicate that we only want siblings that have this particular class, or not use anything at all there if you trust there will only be 1 sibling.

edited Jan 26, 2017 at 15:26

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answered Jan 26, 2017 at 15:16

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2 Comments

becixb Over a year ago

//div[@class='attributeTitle' and contains(text(),'Square')] also works

becixb Over a year ago

also if what you posted is the complete DOM, then you don't need the [1] when getting the value since there is only one span node after the square element..

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