No Nested Nodes. How To Get One Piece Of Information And Then To Get Additional Info Respectively?

For the code below I need to get dates and their times+hrefs+formats+...(not shown) respectively.

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Solution 1:

Turns out that lxml support referencing python variable from XPath expression, which proven to be useful for this case i.e for every div date, you can get the following sibling span which the nearest preceding sibling div date is the current div date, where reference to the current div date is stored in python variabledates :

for dates in movie.xpath('.//div[@class="showstimes"]/div[@class="date"]'):
    date = dates.xpath('normalize-space()')
    for times in dates.xpath('following-sibling::span[preceding-sibling::div[1]=$current]', current=dates):
        time = times.xpath('a/text()')[0]
        url = times.xpath('a/@href')[0]
        format_type = times.xpath('span/text()')[0]
        printdate, time, url, format_type

output :

'9 December, Wednesday', '12:30', 'http://www.test.com', '3D''9 December, Wednesday', '15:30', 'http://www.test.com', '3D''9 December, Wednesday', '18:30', 'http://www.test.com', '3D''10 December, Thursday', '12:30', 'http://www.test.com', '2D''10 December, Thursday', '15:30', 'http://www.test.com', '3D'

References :

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/17750629/2998271
• http://lxml.de/xpathxslt.html#the-xpath-method

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