How can I only get the value 9 from this input using xpath?
I have HTML as shown below
<ol Class="z1">
<li><h3>Number Theory - HCF LCM</h3>
<p lang="title">How many pairs of integers (x, y) exist such that the product of x, y and HCF (x, y) = 1080?</p>
<ol class="xyz">
<li>8</li>
<li>7</li>
<li>9</li>
<li>12</li>
</ol>
<ul class="exp"><li class="grey fleft"><span class="qlabs_tooltip_bottom qlabs_tooltip_style_33" style="cursor:pointer;"><span><strong>Correct Answer</strong>Choice (C).</br>9</span> Correct answer</span></li><li class="primary fleft"><a href="hcf-lcm_1.shtml">Explanatory Answer</a></li><li class="grey1 fleft">HCF LCM</li><li class="red1 flrt">Hard</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
I'm interested in grabbing the value 9 under the correct answer from ul, whose class is exp that follows br
I wrote an existing Xpath request that gets everything but doesn't do the job ".//ul [@ class =" exp "] / li / span / span / text () '"
Any help is much appreciated?
Trying to run this xpath expression while scrapy
class BrickSetSpider(scrapy.Spider):
name = "cat_spider"
start_urls = ['http://iim-cat-questions-answers.2iim.com/quant/number-system/hcf-lcm/']
def parse(self, response):
CLASS_SELECTOR = '//ol[@class="z1"]/li'
problems = []
for lis in response.xpath(CLASS_SELECTOR):
question = lis.xpath('.//p[@lang="title"]/text()').extract_first().strip()
choices = lis.xpath('.//ol[@class="xyz"]/li/text()').extract()
ANSWER_SELECTOR = './/ul[@class="exp"]/li/span/span/text()[not(contains(.,"Choice"))]'
correct_answer = lis.xpath(ANSWER_SELECTOR).extract_first()
explanation = lis.xpath('.//ul[@class="exp"]/li[2]/a/@href').extract_first().strip()
difficulty = lis.xpath('.//ul[@class="exp"]/li[last()]/text()').extract_first().strip()
p = Problem(question,choices, correct_answer, explanation, difficulty)
print(question, choices, correct_answer)
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Try below expressions and let me know if this is not what you want:
//ul[@class="exp"]//strong[.="Correct answer"]/following::text()[2]
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