Selecting specific using x-path while disregarding certain nodes.

Question

I have some html that looks pretty much like this.

<p>
 <a img src="img src">
 <strong>foo</strong>
 <strong>bar</strong>
 <strong>baz</strong>
 <strong>eek</strong>
 This is the text I want to select using xpath.
</p>

How can I select only this particular text node as indicated above using xpath?

Answer 1

"/p/text()" xpath expression will select the text from "p" node in above XML (Posted in question).

/p/text()[normalize-space()] 

this will remove trailing spaces from string. This xpath produces exactly what you want.

There is very good tutorial at http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/

Answer 2

How do I get at only this particular text element in question using xpath?

Use:

/p/text()[last()]