xpath表达式，用于从具有子div的链接中选择文本

Question

I have a TA case where i find an element by xpath (really long one)

$x("//tr[./td[contains(@class, 'description_short') and .//a[contains(@class, 'descShort') and normalize-space(text()) = normalize-space('xxxxxxxxx')]]]/.//img[starts-with(@id, 'tocart_')]")$x("//tr[./td[contains(@class, 'description_short') and .//a[contains(@class, 'descShort')]]]/.//img[starts-with(@id, 'tocart_')]")

It no longer works because somone came with the briliant idea to highlight the words in the link name so text() returns null.

The new text is :

<a href="#" class="x-dig-articleDetailSpx descShort"><b class="x-dig-articleDetailSpx descShort"><b class="x-dig-articleDetailSpx descShort">MDI,</b></b> P<b class="x-dig-articleDetailSpx descShort"><b class="x-dig-articleDetailSpx descShort">MDI,</b></b> <b class="x-dig-articleDetailSpx descShort">Isocyanat,MDF,</b> <b class="x-dig-articleDetailSpx descShort">Huntsman</b></a>

The old was:

<a href="#" class="x-dig-articleDetailSpx descShort"><b class="x-dig-articleDetailSpx descShort">xxxxxx</a>

I have no idea how to get the text from that new mess... anyone an idea?

Answer 1

Found it. you can use the string() function instead of text()

Kinda simple.