Question

I want to get to the exact node having this text: ‘Company’. Once I get to this node I want to get to the next text node immediately following this node because this contains the company name. How can I do this with Xpath?

Fragment of XML is:

<div id="jobsummary">
    <div id="jobsummary_content">
        <h2>Job Summary</h2>
        <dl>
            <dt>Company</dt>
            <!-- the following element is the one I'm looking for -->
            <dd><span class="wrappable">Pinpoint IT Services, LLC</span></dd>
            <dt>Location</dt>
            <dd><span class="wrappable">Newport News, VA</span></dd>
            <dt>Industries</dt>
            <dd><span class="wrappable">All</span></dd>
            <dt>Job Type</dt>
            <dd class="multipledd"><span class="wrappable">Full Time</span></dd><dd class="multipleddlast"><span class="wrappable"> Employee</span></dd>
        </dl>
    </div>
</div>

I got to the Company tag with following xpath: //*[text()= 'Company']
Now I want to get to the next text node. My XML is dynamic. So I can’t hardcode the node type like <dd> for getting the company value. But this is for sure that the value be in the immediate next text node.

So how can I get to the text node immediately after the node with text as Company?

Answer 1

If you cannot hardcode any part of the following-sibling node your xpath should look like this:

//*[text()='Company']/following::*/*/text()

assuming that the desired text is always enclosed in another element like span.

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To test for given dt text, modify your xpath to

//*[text()='Company' or text()='Company:' or text()='Company Name']/following::*/*/text()