The following line is a scrapy selector. How would I apply normalize-space() to this?
rows.xpath("//table[@id='PlaceHolderMain']/tbody/tr/td[1]/span/text()").get()
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`normalize-space()` for which text? Update the question with the relevant text based HTML. – undetected Selenium Dec 27 '20 at 19:19
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the text is in the span element – jim Burns Dec 27 '20 at 21:32
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//table[@id='PlaceHolderMain_gvUnitShippingInfo']/tbody/tr[position() >1]/td[1]/span/text() – jim Burns Dec 27 '20 at 22:02
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To use the text jim Burns through normalize-space() you can use the following xpath based Locator Strategy:
ows.xpath("//table[@id='PlaceHolderMain']/tbody/tr/td[1]/span[normalize-space()='jim Burns']").get()
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thanks. that looks like the answers i've seen. thing is.. i'm using the xpath statement to scrape a webpage. i don't know what the text is going to be. its whatever is in the span element – jim Burns Dec 27 '20 at 22:13