Question

How to get the text after the tag is found

Example:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import lxml.html

html = """
<b>Point1:</b> Text1 <br>
<b>Point2:</b> Text2 <br>
...
<b>PointN:</b> TextN
<b>PointN+1:</b> TextN+1<br>
"""
dom = lxml.html.document_fromstring(html)
el = dom.xpath('//b[text()="PointN:"]')
print el

tag el with the text PointN found out how to get text TextN?

Answer 1

Since TextN follows the <b> that you already found, you can use the XPath following axis:

dom.xpath('//b[text() = "PointN:"]/following::node()')[0]