xpath: extract data from a node

Question

I am trying to extra some data from a webpage. the structure of the webpage is as below

<li id="yui_3_4_1_1_1326860702769_9706">
<span id="yui_3_4_1_1_1326860702769_9705">Sales rank: </span>
2
</li>

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/enders-game-orson-scott-card/1100353963?ean=9781429963930

I need to extract value "2" from above and identifier has to be "Sales rank"

Thanks for all the help.

Answer 1

try this:

//descendant::*[@class='product-details box']/ul/li[span='Sales rank: ']/text()

Answer 2

You can try using:

//div[@class="product-details"]/ul/li[9]

Not tested though.

Answer 3

Use:

//li[@id='yui_3_4_1_1_1326860702769_9706']
    /span[. = 'Sales rank: ']
      /following-sibling::text()[1]

This selects the first following-sibling text node of any span element with string value 'Sales rank: ', that is a child of any li element whose id attribute has the value of 'yui_3_4_1_1_1326860702769_9706' .

Answer 4

try this， if any question, please let me know

`//li[@id]/*[contains(text(), 'Sales rank')]/following-sibling::node()[1]`