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Html – Python selenium: nested element finding

I’m trying to write a function, which returns a list of elements from any level of nesting from the html, containing the word ‘products’ in its text, case insensitive.

here is my function:


def __find_elements(driver):
    return driver.find_elements(By.XPATH,
                                "//*[contains(translate(descendant::text(), "
                                "'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', "
                                "'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'), "
                                "'products')]")

;
for some reason, processing this part of HTML


<a class="nav-link main-navigation-link" href="https://www.leuze.com/en-int/products" itemprop="url" data-flyout-menu-trigger="e3e2319128d6464d8a025ac00823ce4e" title="Products">
    <div class="main-navigation-link-text">
        <span itemprop="name">Products</span>
    </div>
</a>

,
the function returns [] instead of the list, containing the following span element:


<span itemprop="name">Products</span>

.

QUESTION:
Could you please clarify, how to modify the function to return a list with the mentioned above span element, while processing the part of HTML?

Expected:
list with the element

<span itemprop="name">Products</span>

Actually happened:
empty list

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2

Answers


  1. 0

    Try this :

    elements = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//span[@itemprop='name']")

    this will get all the elements within a span that have itemprop=’name’

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  2. 0

    If it were me, I would change the XPath to

    //*[text()='Products']

    That will get you any element that contains the text, "Products". What other capitalization are you expecting? All caps or all lower case? If those are truly alternatives, I would change it to

    //*[text()='products'] | //*[text()='Products'] | //*[text()='PRODUCTS']

    or some variation only containing the spellings I was expecting. I think it’s much more readable but that’s just my opinion.

    If those still don’t work, you are likely running into a timing issue and you need to add a WebDriverWait or it may be that some/all of the found elements are not visible so their text value will be returned as empty string.

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