使用Selenium或xPath Python排除父元素的子元素

Question

I am stacked at the code, tried many ways and cannot find the right answer yet. This is the HTML code:

<div class="description">
    <p>Text1</p>

    <p>Text1</p>

    <div class="excluding-class">
        <ul>
            <li>list1</li>
            <li>list2</li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>

I'm using Selenium and I have to pull some data from HTML code which has <div class="description"> . But the child <div id="excluding-class"> is making me a problem so I want to exclude it by calling driver.get_element_by_class_name or driver.get_element_by_xpath

Working code should export but without using <p> or something else:

<div class="description">
    <p>Text1</p>

    <p>Text1</p>
</div<

Is there any way to do that?

Answer 1

With only XPath 1.0 (the version most common in selenium webdrivers), there is no way to get the parent element who's innerHTML attribute will have the specified child element excluded. However, if removing the child element from the DOM is okay with you, the following is possible:

driver.execute_script("document.getElementsByClassName('excluded-class').remove()")
driver.get_element_by_class_name("description").get_attribute("innerHTML")