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Asked: 2026-05-20T03:18:50+00:00

I’m working on this html snippet: <p class=pageSelector> <a href=/BlaBla>&lt; Prev</a>&nbsp; <a href=/BlaBla>1</a>&nbsp; <a

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I’m working on this html snippet:

<p class="pageSelector">
    <a href="/BlaBla">&lt; Prev</a>&nbsp;
    <a href="/BlaBla">1</a>&nbsp;
    <a href="/BlaBla">2</a>&nbsp;
    <a href="/BlaBla">3</a>&nbsp;
    4&nbsp;
    <a href="/BlaBla">5</a>&nbsp;
    <a href="/BlaBla">6</a>&nbsp;
    <a href="/BlaBla">Next &gt;</a>&nbsp;
</p>

rendered (more or less) as < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next > .

I want to select the “4” because I need to discover the ‘current’ page. Using

//p[@class='pageSelector']/text()[normalize-space()]

(tested with Firefox XPath Ckecker) I thougth I’d solved but no, because I obtained 7 matches.

Anyone please could tell me where I’m wrong?
Thank you

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  1. Editorial Team

    normalize-space removes whitespace, but the no-break-space character (despite its visual appearance) is not considered to be whitespace for this purpose. So I would do

    text()[translate(., '&#x20;&#x09;&#x0a;&#x0d;&#xa0;', '')]

    which will return you those child text nodes that contain a character other than whitespace or no-break-space; you may then need to process this further to extract the part of the content you want.

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