How to use XPath to select child text after another child element

Question

I'm using the Crawler library that helps you to make some XPath expressions to get the content of the HTML tags. I'm currently reading a HTML5 content from a page and I want to retrieve a text that is not inserted in a tag in this way.

<div class="country">
    <strong> USA </strong>
        Some text here
</div>

So I'm trying to get this text Some text here but the crawler library allows to get just what's in a tag and not outside it.

So any alternative please.

These's the Crawler part :

$crawler = new Crawler();
$crawler->xpathSingle($xml, '//div[@class="country"]/strong/@text');

Answer 1

Either of these XPaths will return "Some text here" as requested:

• normalize-space(substring-after(//div[@class="country"], 'USA'))

• normalize-space(//div[@class="country"]/strong/following-sibling::text())

Choose based on the sort of variations you wish to accommodate.

^{_{Credit: Second example is derived from suggestion first made in comment by @Keith Hall.}}

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Update:

As I mentioned you'll need to choose your XPath based on the variations you wish to accomodate. No sooner did I post than you encountered a variation:

<div class="country">
    <strong> USA </strong>
        Some text here
    <i>Do not want this text</i>
</div>

You can exclude "Do not want this text" and return "Some text here" as requested using the second XPath above but just grab the first following text node:

• normalize-space(//div[@class="country"]/strong/following-sibling::text()[1])