I have some html file:
<html>
<body>
<span class="text">One</span>some text1</br>
<span class="cyrillic">Мир</span>some text2</br>
</body>
</html>
How can i get "some text1" and "some text2" using lxml with python?
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Here's the tutorial: codespeak.net/lxml/tutorial.html Anything specific you don't understand?Wolph– Wolph2010-11-15 02:38:20 +00:00Commented Nov 15, 2010 at 2:38
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This tutorial link is defunct. Please remove.ely– ely2013-04-23 21:18:17 +00:00Commented Apr 23, 2013 at 21:18
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import lxml.html
doc = lxml.html.document_fromstring("""<html>
<body>
<span class="text">One</span>some text1</br>
<span class="cyrillic">Мир</span>some text2</br>
</body>
</html>
""")
txt1 = doc.xpath('/html/body/span[@class="text"]/following-sibling::text()[1]')
txt2 = doc.xpath('/html/body/span[@class="cyrillic"]/following-sibling::text()[1]')
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I use lxml for xml parsing, but I use BeautifulSoup for HTML. Here's a very quick/brief tour, ending with one solution to your question. Hope it helps.
Python 2.6.5 (r265:79359, Mar 24 2010, 01:32:55)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)] on darwin
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>>> from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup as soup
>>> stream = open('bs.html', 'r')
>>> doc = soup(stream.read())
>>> doc.body.span
<span class="text">One</span>
>>> doc.body.span.nextSibling
u'some text1'
>>> x = doc.findAll('span')
>>> for i in x:
... print unicode(i)
...
<span class="text">One</span>
<span class="cyrillic">Мир</span>
>>> x = doc('span')
>>> type(x)
<class 'BeautifulSoup.ResultSet'>
>>> for i in x:
... print unicode(i)
...
<span class="text">One</span>
<span class="cyrillic">Мир</span>
>>> for i in x:
... print i.nextSibling
...
some text1
some text2
>>>
