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unable to select an element using xpath in selenium and python

I've been trying to select an element by xpath and display it but I get an error everytime I try to run the code. I got the xpath by doing inspect element and copying full xpath yet it gives me the error. It's a dynamic form too, so I can't choose the direct text and I would probably need to use an address to locate that element as it changes everytime but I've not been able to select that certain element. how do I choose the element?

this is how I tried to choose the element

name_from_doc=browser.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/form/div[3]/div[3]/div/div[4]/div/div[2]/div[4]/div[2]/text()[1]')
print(name_from_doc)

the error that I get is

InvalidSelectorException: Message: invalid selector: The result of the xpath expression "/html/body/form/div[3]/div[3]/div/div[4]/div/div[2]/div[4]/div[2]/text()[1]" is: [object Text]. It should be an element.

I want to store the name of the person separately and address separately in two different variables

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As the Billing Address text would always be there, so can reach there by using its text in the xpath and then find its exact value by using following in the xpath.
You can do it like:

name_from_doc = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//div[contains(text(),'Billing Address')]//following::div[1]//br[2]")
print(name_from_doc.text)

To get the value NAPERVILLE IL Use follwoing xpath to get the element and then use splitlines() and last index value.

name_from_doc=browser.find_element_by_xpath('//div[contains(.,"Billing Address")]/following::div[1]').text
print(name_from_doc.splitlines()[-1])

Update :

name_from_doc=browser.find_element_by_xpath('//div[contains(.,"Billing Address")]/following::div[1]').text
print(name_from_doc.splitlines()[0])
print(name_from_doc.splitlines()[1])
print(name_from_doc.splitlines()[-1])

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