Find XPath of next sibling python

Question

Here's the outhtml of an element on a webpage

<td valign="top">
                            <script type="text/javascript">sjcap();</script><p><input type="text" id="uword" name="uword" class="" size="20"></p><p><img src="/wps/PA_1_ATAGT15208O2F02M34340U0000/./cimg/31.jpg" width="290" height="80" alt=""></p>
                            </td>

I am trying to build xpath for the image and extract the src attribute using HTMLSession requests_html Here's my xpath but this didn't match the element //input[@id='uword']/following-sibling::p I inspected the element and try to use Ctrl + F to find the xpath but I got 0 results

Answer 1

The html in your question is not well formed xml (the <input> and <img> elements aren't closed). Second, the <p> element containing the <img> child is not a sibling of the <input> tag, but of that tag's <p> parent. Assuming the html is fixed like this:

<td valign="top">
  <script type="text/javascript">sjcap();</script>
  <p>
    <input type="text" id="uword" name="uword" class="" size="20"/>
  </p>
  <p>
    <img src="/wps/PA_1_ATAGT15208O2F02M34340U0000/./cimg/31.jpg" width="290" height="80" alt=""/>
  </p>
</td>

The following xpath

//p[./input[@id="uword"]]/following-sibling::p/img/@src

or

//p/input[@id="uword"]/../following-sibling::p/img/@src

should output

/wps/PA_1_ATAGT15208O2F02M34340U0000/./cimg/31.jpg