I'm trying to extract text out of some html elements using xpath but can't figure out how to form one. The key thing here is to make use of this ga:type="Comment" within the xpath.
Html elements:
<div ga:type="Comment" class="store" dir="auto">This text should be parsed.</div>
My try so far:
from lxml.html import fromstring
elements = """
<div ga:type="Comment" class="store" dir="auto">This text should be parsed.</div>
"""
root = fromstring(elements)
item = root.xpath("//*[@ga:type='Comment']")[0].text
print(item)
Output I wanna get:
This text should be parsed.
Upon execution I get thie following error:
lxml.etree.XPathEvalError: Undefined namespace prefix
How can I create an xpath containing this portion ga:type="Comment" within it and still has the capability to parse the text?
