Using XPATH, I am trying to get just the ISBN number out of the following:
<span class="product_info_details">
<b class="">ISBN: </b>1941529429
<b class="">Contributors: </b> (Illustrator)
<b class="">Publisher:</b> Parallax Pr
<b class="">Published:</b> Nov 1 2016
</span>
Now, when I use:
//span[@class="product_info_details"]/b/following-sibling::text()
I get the output:
1941529429
(Illustrator)
Parallax Pr
Nov 1 2016
What can I use so that I just get the first value (1941529429) as the result?
You want to limit b element that the XPath find to the one that contains substring 'ISBN', and limit the following sibling text node to the nearest only :
//span[@class="product_info_details"]/b[contains(.,'ISBN')]/following-sibling::text()[1]
Alternatively, you can limit b element that the XPath find to the one that starts with substring 'ISBN' :
..../b[starts-with(.,'ISBN')]/....
Using position index 1, as mentioned on the other answer, should also work given the order of the b elements is consistent, but the two alternatives given above represents your intention better as it mentioned the substring 'ISBN' on which you based your search criteria to find the target text.
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