Xpath How To Get Text When The Brother Is Not An Element

i used to have this form;

name:

Seca

and I was using this xpath to get the seca: ul/li/span[normalize-s

Solution 1:

Now, "Seca" is just another child of the li element - and thus a following sibling of the span element. Using

//ul/li/span[normalize-space(text())='name:']/following-sibling::text()

gives you

[EMPTY LINE]
Seca
[EMPTY LINE]

you might want to exclude those whitespace-only lines:

normalize-space(//ul/li/span[normalize-space(text())='name:']/following-sibling::text())

and the result will be

Seca

If your actual input includes more text nodes, do not forget to add [1]to the expression.

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Note that the expression could be a lot easier if there is actually no reason to normalize the text content of span and to only consider its immediate child text nodes:

//ul/li[span='name:']/text()[2]