XPath to retrieve text within span

Question

I am trying to figure out the XPath which will retrieve the 'text Data 3' from the following HTML snippet

  <span class="inner-span">
    Text-data 1
    <br>
    <span>Text Data 2</span> text Data 3
   </span>

So far i have tried the following Xpath which leads me to the span with class 'inner-span'

 /html/body/div/div[4]/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/span[@class="inner-span"]

But dont know what to add more to Xpath which will only give me text 'text Data 3' from above Html snippet. Thanks

Gheber

Answer 1

For your particular case this XPath query would work:

normalize-space(//span[@class="inner-span"]/text()[last()])

Tried it in this online tester and here's the result:

1. Your HTML;
2. My XPath expression;
3. The expected result "text Data 3".

Yolande

I checked your solution on the same link you provided but it gives all text-data from [@class="inner-span"]. I just want text data 3, not all text data 1,text data 2,text data 3. – Gheber

I've added a screenshot to show you the result I got and how I got it, hope it helps. – Yolande

Answer 2

You could select /html/body/div/div[4]/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/span[@class="inner-span"]/text()[last()] to get the text node (though with leading and trailing white space) or you can use an XPath returning a string with normalize-space(/html/body/div/div[4]/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/span[@class="inner-span"]/text()[last()]).

Foscalina