Question

I am trying to do some test using Selenium and I am facing some problems.
Suppose I have the following:

 <p>
   <label for="something">whatever :</label>
   what I really want
 </p>

I would like to be able to get only text what I really want, instead of all texts inside p-element
Getting text inside label is possible by doing :

 selenium.getText("//p/label[@for='something']");

Does anyone know how to get only in my case “what I really want”

Thanks!

Answer 1

//p[label[@for = 'something']]/text()[normalize-space()] is an XPath expression selecting a node-set (XPath 1.0) or sequence (XPath 2.0) of direct text child nodes of that p element. In your sample there is only one such child node.