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Concat nodes on Xpath

I have the following html:

<td>

  <h1>Headline</h1><br>
  <strong>Subheadline</strong><br>

  Text1<br>
  Text2

  <h2>Subheadline2</h2>
  <div>stuff</div>
  <div>more stuff!</div>

</td>

I'm trying to grab "Text1" and "Text2".
After experimenting with Xpath (DOMXPath using php), I've
discovered that "td/text()[2]" matches Text1
and "td/text()[3]" matches Text2
I want to somehow concat them using Xpath, is it possible?

I can't seem to find proper documentation for this anywhere.
W3schools has some examples but this is really not enough.

Solution

  • The concat() function does what you're trying to do, I believe. Something like concat(/td/text()[2], /td/text()[3]) should work.

    I cleaned up your HTML (made all the <br> tags <br/>) and was able to do it with the concat function in OxygenXML.