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Asked: May 16, 20262026-05-16T00:51:15+00:00 2026-05-16T00:51:15+00:00

I want to select only the atomic values inside a node. For example, the

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I want to select only the atomic values inside a node. For example, the “here” text in the following:

<a href="">here</a>

When I use Xpath in Java, it returns some sort of object/array, such as

[DomNode[<a href="">here</a>]]

I just want the text only.

Is this possible, and how? Thanks!

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    2026-05-16T00:51:16+00:00Added an answer on May 16, 2026 at 12:51 am

    You can use the text() node test. For example, if you want to select the text of all anchors with an href attribute you could do the following XPath query:

    //*/a/@href/../text()
    
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