XPath: Find element with most text content

Question

I want to look for paragraphs. I would use the p tag to look for this but I've seen pages that don't use p when they should. To approximate this, I just want to look for the most text in one tag. Any ideas how to find this

Answer 1

Try this: //div/node()[string-length(following-sibling::node()/text()) < string-length(text())]

Actually that's only covering one direction, use this one:

//div/node()[string-length(following-sibling::node()/text()) < string-length(./text()) and not(string-length(preceding-sibling::node()/text()) > string-length(./text()))]

I was using some scrap xml to test this, and the root was <div> so change that to the xml root you're examining.