using XPath: how to exclude text in nested elements

Question

if I have some html like the following

    
  

     Game Title 
 

        
                      

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Answer 1

The conditions in square brackets ("predicate") specify conditions for the node. The div node is not h1 at the same time, so the negation is satisfied. But if you used child instead of self, which was probably your original intent, you would not get the expected text - you would get nothing, because it means "Search for a div with unique_id tah does not have a h1/span child".

If you want text, specify text():

//div/text()[last()]

Answer 2

div[@class = 'unique_id']/text()[not(normalize-space() = '')]

or

div[@class = 'unique_id']/text()[last()]

depending on context.

Note that you still have to trim the resulting text node.