Question

So, at the moment I’m using Xpath to retrieve the text from blockquote tags, but I need to be able to select SPECIFIC blockquotes.
The only difference between the two types I need is that they are directly after spans.
Let’s say I need to get text1 and text2 from each other, this would be the HTML:

<span id="1">some code here</span>
<blockquote>text1</blockquote>

more code in here

<span id="2">some code here</span>
<blockquote>text</blockquote>

How would I go about doing this?

Answer 1

I would use:

//span[starts-with(@id,'nothread')]/following::*[1][name()='blockquote']

This will get all the wanted blockquote elements.

To get the text nodes:

//span[starts-with(@id,'nothread')]/following::*[1][name()='blockquote']/text()