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XPath to identify text in html

I have the following structure in an HTML document:

<li>
<b>fixed_keyword:</b> varying_text</li>

I want to get the varying_text part to print with xmllint. I have tried

xmllint --html --xpath "(//li[/b[text()='fixed_keyword:']]/text())"
xmllint --html --xpath "(//li)/b[text()='fixed_keyword:']/text()"
xmllint --html --xpath "(//li[text()='fixed_keyword:'])/text()"

and many more but nothing has worked so far.

What is the correct xpath expression to print varying_text?

Solution

  • You need the following-sibling axis:

    //li/b[. = 'fixed_keyword:']/following-sibling::text()

    Note that you don't have : in the input HTML.