How to get value between parent and child node using xpath?

Question

I want to extract vale between parent and child node using Xpath. How to achieve that?

**<div class="Shareaccess">
    Value to be extract
       <a href="javascript:shareAccessValue()" id="shareKey">
             KEY
       </a>
       <span></span>
  </div>**

How to get text value output as 'Value to be extract'? It should not be 'Value to be extract KEY'. 'KEY' should be ignored.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 27 '16 at 09:46

2

You can remove the child text from the result

Java syntax

String allText = driver.findElement(By.className("Shareaccess")).getText();
String childText = driver.findElement(By.id("shareKey")).getText();
String parentText = allText.replace(childText, "");

parentText will be "Value to be extract"

answered Jan 27 '16 at 09:46

Guy

46,488
10
44
88

But is it possible to create single xpath which will ignore child text from the result without using java functions? Only xpath should ignore the contents. – Sanket Chandak Jan 27 '16 at 10:06
@SanketChandak No, selenium doesn't support it currently. Another option is to use [JavaScript](http://stackoverflow.com/a/19040341/5168011) – Guy Jan 27 '16 at 10:12
@SanketChandak What do you mean? Selenium API doesn't support it, there isn't really much more information I can give you. – Guy Jan 27 '16 at 11:43

Leon Barkan · Answer 2 · 2016-01-27T10:24:12.853

0

Try this

C#:

string parentText = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//a[@id='shareKey']/parent::div").Text().Replace(driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//a[@id='shareKey']").Text(),"");

edited Jan 27 '16 at 10:24

answered Jan 27 '16 at 10:05

Leon Barkan

2,676
2
19
43

yes, saw it coming so i changed the code try the new one its like in the other example but in one line and less variable to define. – Leon Barkan Jan 27 '16 at 10:27

How to get value between parent and child node using xpath?

2 Answers2