How to get XPath for the text after the tags

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I Need to get XPath for the following, to get the text after the tags
Name 6: "ABC" Name 1: "BCD" Name 2: "EFG" Name 3: "HIJ" Name 4: "KLM" Name 5: "NOP"
I need to get the following texts from the above HTML, please help how to set XPath to get the following text Required output: "ABC" "BCD" "EFG" "HIJ" "KLM" "NOP"

Svetlana Levinsohn · Answer

You can try this XPath, this should make it:

"//li[@class='SpacedOut']/text()[normalize-space()]"

Good luck!

Renato Lopes · Answer

Try this: //li[@class='SpacedOut']/text() 
You'll be able to return it into a list if you're using Selenium

anonygoose · Answer

I'm not sure if this is possible using just XPath, but there may be some advanced stuff I'm unaware of.

This is fairly simple using regular expression matching though:

driver.get("https://1a9f9143-5107-46d6-85df-3b5fc765cd60.htmlpasta.com");

WebElement list = driver.findElement(By.className("SpacedOut"));
        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(""\w+"");
        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(list.getText());

while(matcher.find()) {
            System.out.println(matcher.group());
        }

The regex may need adjusting if your real text is substantially different from what you supplied.  I would suggest researching Java regular expressions in that case.

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