How to select a specific string in a certain patern in xpath

Question

i want to select a string between </span> and <br/> for instance below

<span class="pl">制片国家/地区:</span>
中国大陆
<br/>

Of course i transfer all these chinese words into Unicode Format here i'd like to select "中国大陆" from this html file. i tried it with xpath and regex in this way:

sel.xpath("*").re(r'制片国家/地区:</span>\s*(.*)<br/>')

it should be "中国大陆",but i get a empty string.what should i do

Answer 1

You can use this to select your text:

//span[@class="pl"]/following-sibling::text()[1]

• //span[@class="pl"] - Find a span with class pl (exactly) at any level of the document...
• /following-sibling::text()[1] - ... and take the next text node following it.