using XPath: how to exclude text in nested elements

Question

if I have some html like the following ```

Game Title

Game Developer

``` Is there a way I can use xpath to get JUST the "Game Developer" part of the text? From searching around I tried: ``` //div[@class='unique_id' and not(self::h1/span)] ``` But that still gives me the entire text "Game Title Game Developer".

Accepted Answer

```
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.

using XPath: how to exclude text in nested elements

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