Xpath - Getting text from div

b00122599
b00122599 New Altair Community Member
edited November 2024 in Community Q&A
Hey folks,

I've tested my xpath in google docs and it's working fine however I can't get it to work in Rapidminer. In the Extract Information operator if I use the query "//h:div[2]/h:div/h:ul/h:li[1]/h:div" I get the result below:

<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="stats-value">
  <svg class="icon">
    <use xmlns:xlink="urn:x-prefix:xlink" xlink:href="#trophy" />
  </svg>
  Text that I want
</div>

However I just want the text "Text that I want" not the surrounding html. So I try "//h:div[2]/h:div/h:ul/h:li[1]/h:div/text()". This doesn't give me an error but it's not returning anything, no text at all.

Any help is much appreciated.

Neil. 

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  • lionelderkrikor
    lionelderkrikor New Altair Community Member
    Hi @b00122599,

    In order we can find a solution can you please share : 

     - your process
     - your data (a priori your excel file where your links are stored)

    Regards,

    Lionel
  • b00122599
    b00122599 New Altair Community Member
    Please find code below and excel file with links. Thanks for your help

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><process version="9.5.000">
  <context>
    <input/>
    <output/>
    <macros/>
  </context>
  <operator activated="true" class="process" compatibility="9.5.000" expanded="true" name="Process">
    <parameter key="logverbosity" value="init"/>
    <parameter key="random_seed" value="2001"/>
    <parameter key="send_mail" value="never"/>
    <parameter key="notification_email" value=""/>
    <parameter key="process_duration_for_mail" value="30"/>
    <parameter key="encoding" value="SYSTEM"/>
    <process expanded="true">
      <operator activated="true" class="read_excel" compatibility="9.5.000" expanded="true" height="68" name="Read Excel (2)" width="90" x="45" y="136">
        <parameter key="excel_file" value="D:\OneDrive\snookersmall.xlsx"/>
        <parameter key="sheet_selection" value="sheet number"/>
        <parameter key="sheet_number" value="1"/>
        <parameter key="imported_cell_range" value="A1"/>
        <parameter key="encoding" value="SYSTEM"/>
        <parameter key="first_row_as_names" value="true"/>
        <list key="annotations"/>
        <parameter key="date_format" value=""/>
        <parameter key="time_zone" value="SYSTEM"/>
        <parameter key="locale" value="English (United States)"/>
        <parameter key="read_all_values_as_polynominal" value="false"/>
        <list key="data_set_meta_data_information"/>
        <parameter key="read_not_matching_values_as_missings" value="true"/>
        <parameter key="datamanagement" value="double_array"/>
        <parameter key="data_management" value="auto"/>
      </operator>
      <operator activated="true" class="web:retrieve_webpages" compatibility="9.0.000" expanded="true" height="68" name="Get Pages (2)" width="90" x="313" y="136">
        <parameter key="link_attribute" value="LINKS"/>
        <parameter key="random_user_agent" value="false"/>
        <parameter key="user_agent" value="googlebot"/>
        <parameter key="connection_timeout" value="10000"/>
        <parameter key="read_timeout" value="10000"/>
        <parameter key="follow_redirects" value="true"/>
        <parameter key="accept_cookies" value="none"/>
        <parameter key="cookie_scope" value="global"/>
        <parameter key="request_method" value="GET"/>
        <parameter key="delay" value="none"/>
        <parameter key="delay_amount" value="1000"/>
        <parameter key="min_delay_amount" value="0"/>
        <parameter key="max_delay_amount" value="1000"/>
      </operator>
      <operator activated="true" class="text:process_document_from_data" compatibility="8.2.000" expanded="true" height="82" name="Process Documents from Data (2)" width="90" x="581" y="136">
        <parameter key="create_word_vector" value="true"/>
        <parameter key="vector_creation" value="TF-IDF"/>
        <parameter key="add_meta_information" value="true"/>
        <parameter key="keep_text" value="false"/>
        <parameter key="prune_method" value="none"/>
        <parameter key="prune_below_percent" value="3.0"/>
        <parameter key="prune_above_percent" value="30.0"/>
        <parameter key="prune_below_rank" value="0.05"/>
        <parameter key="prune_above_rank" value="0.95"/>
        <parameter key="datamanagement" value="double_sparse_array"/>
        <parameter key="data_management" value="auto"/>
        <parameter key="select_attributes_and_weights" value="false"/>
        <list key="specify_weights"/>
        <process expanded="true">
          <operator activated="true" class="text:extract_information" compatibility="8.2.000" expanded="true" height="68" name="Extract Information (2)" width="90" x="246" y="34">
            <parameter key="query_type" value="XPath"/>
            <list key="string_machting_queries"/>
            <parameter key="attribute_type" value="Nominal"/>
            <list key="regular_expression_queries"/>
            <list key="regular_region_queries"/>
            <list key="xpath_queries">
              <parameter key="Snookname" value="//h:div[1]/h:h1/text()"/>
              <parameter key="Titleswon" value="//h:div[2]/h:div/h:ul/h:li[1]/h:div/text()"/>
            </list>
            <list key="namespaces"/>
            <parameter key="ignore_CDATA" value="true"/>
            <parameter key="assume_html" value="true"/>
            <list key="index_queries"/>
            <list key="jsonpath_queries"/>
          </operator>
          <operator activated="true" class="web:extract_html_text_content" compatibility="9.0.000" expanded="true" height="68" name="Extract Content (2)" width="90" x="514" y="34">
            <parameter key="extract_content" value="true"/>
            <parameter key="minimum_text_block_length" value="500"/>
            <parameter key="override_content_type_information" value="true"/>
            <parameter key="neglegt_span_tags" value="true"/>
            <parameter key="neglect_p_tags" value="true"/>
            <parameter key="neglect_b_tags" value="true"/>
            <parameter key="neglect_i_tags" value="true"/>
            <parameter key="neglect_br_tags" value="true"/>
            <parameter key="ignore_non_html_tags" value="true"/>
          </operator>
          <connect from_port="document" to_op="Extract Information (2)" to_port="document"/>
          <connect from_op="Extract Information (2)" from_port="document" to_op="Extract Content (2)" to_port="document"/>
          <connect from_op="Extract Content (2)" from_port="document" to_port="document 1"/>
          <portSpacing port="source_document" spacing="0"/>
          <portSpacing port="sink_document 1" spacing="0"/>
          <portSpacing port="sink_document 2" spacing="0"/>
        </process>
      </operator>
      <connect from_op="Read Excel (2)" from_port="output" to_op="Get Pages (2)" to_port="Example Set"/>
      <connect from_op="Get Pages (2)" from_port="Example Set" to_op="Process Documents from Data (2)" to_port="example set"/>
      <connect from_op="Process Documents from Data (2)" from_port="example set" to_port="result 1"/>
      <portSpacing port="source_input 1" spacing="0"/>
      <portSpacing port="sink_result 1" spacing="0"/>
      <portSpacing port="sink_result 2" spacing="0"/>
    </process>
  </operator>
</process>


  • lionelderkrikor
    lionelderkrikor New Altair Community Member
    @b00122599,

    It seems that your Excel file is broken. I can not open it with Excel and I cannot load the file in RapidMiner...

    Can you share directly the links here ?

    Regards,

    Lionel
  • lionelderkrikor
    lionelderkrikor New Altair Community Member
    Hi again,

    Sorry no need to share the links ! 

    I was able to load your excel file and run your process....

    Regards,

    Lionel
  • lionelderkrikor
    lionelderkrikor New Altair Community Member
    @b00122599,

    Yes it's strange.
    To extract the relevant informations, I proceeded in 2 steps.
    But I'm not able to join the 2 resultings example sets (RapidMiner is raising an error).
    Anyway, you can take a look at this process, your information ("Text what I want") is in the second resulting example set...

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><process version="9.5.000">
  <context>
    <input/>
    <output/>
    <macros/>
  </context>
  <operator activated="true" class="process" compatibility="9.5.000" expanded="true" name="Process">
    <parameter key="logverbosity" value="init"/>
    <parameter key="random_seed" value="2001"/>
    <parameter key="send_mail" value="never"/>
    <parameter key="notification_email" value=""/>
    <parameter key="process_duration_for_mail" value="30"/>
    <parameter key="encoding" value="SYSTEM"/>
    <process expanded="true">
      <operator activated="true" class="read_excel" compatibility="9.5.000" expanded="true" height="68" name="Read Excel (2)" width="90" x="45" y="85">
        <parameter key="excel_file" value="C:\Users\Lionel\Downloads\'snookersmall.xlsx'"/>
        <parameter key="sheet_selection" value="sheet number"/>
        <parameter key="sheet_number" value="1"/>
        <parameter key="imported_cell_range" value="A1"/>
        <parameter key="encoding" value="SYSTEM"/>
        <parameter key="first_row_as_names" value="true"/>
        <list key="annotations"/>
        <parameter key="date_format" value=""/>
        <parameter key="time_zone" value="SYSTEM"/>
        <parameter key="locale" value="English (United States)"/>
        <parameter key="read_all_values_as_polynominal" value="false"/>
        <list key="data_set_meta_data_information"/>
        <parameter key="read_not_matching_values_as_missings" value="true"/>
        <parameter key="datamanagement" value="double_array"/>
        <parameter key="data_management" value="auto"/>
      </operator>
      <operator activated="true" class="web:retrieve_webpages" compatibility="9.0.000" expanded="true" height="68" name="Get Pages (2)" width="90" x="179" y="85">
        <parameter key="link_attribute" value="LINKS"/>
        <parameter key="random_user_agent" value="false"/>
        <parameter key="user_agent" value="googlebot"/>
        <parameter key="connection_timeout" value="10000"/>
        <parameter key="read_timeout" value="10000"/>
        <parameter key="follow_redirects" value="true"/>
        <parameter key="accept_cookies" value="none"/>
        <parameter key="cookie_scope" value="global"/>
        <parameter key="request_method" value="GET"/>
        <parameter key="delay" value="none"/>
        <parameter key="delay_amount" value="1000"/>
        <parameter key="min_delay_amount" value="0"/>
        <parameter key="max_delay_amount" value="1000"/>
      </operator>
      <operator activated="true" breakpoints="after" class="text:process_document_from_data" compatibility="8.2.000" expanded="true" height="82" name="Process Documents from Data (2)" width="90" x="380" y="85">
        <parameter key="create_word_vector" value="true"/>
        <parameter key="vector_creation" value="TF-IDF"/>
        <parameter key="add_meta_information" value="true"/>
        <parameter key="keep_text" value="false"/>
        <parameter key="prune_method" value="none"/>
        <parameter key="prune_below_percent" value="3.0"/>
        <parameter key="prune_above_percent" value="30.0"/>
        <parameter key="prune_below_rank" value="0.05"/>
        <parameter key="prune_above_rank" value="0.95"/>
        <parameter key="datamanagement" value="double_sparse_array"/>
        <parameter key="data_management" value="auto"/>
        <parameter key="select_attributes_and_weights" value="false"/>
        <list key="specify_weights"/>
        <process expanded="true">
          <operator activated="true" class="text:extract_information" compatibility="8.2.000" expanded="true" height="68" name="Extract Information (2)" width="90" x="45" y="34">
            <parameter key="query_type" value="XPath"/>
            <list key="string_machting_queries"/>
            <parameter key="attribute_type" value="Nominal"/>
            <list key="regular_expression_queries"/>
            <list key="regular_region_queries"/>
            <list key="xpath_queries">
              <parameter key="Snookname" value="//h:div[1]/h:h1/text()"/>
              <parameter key="Titleswon" value="//h:div[2]/h:div/h:ul/h:li[1]/h:div"/>
            </list>
            <list key="namespaces"/>
            <parameter key="ignore_CDATA" value="true"/>
            <parameter key="assume_html" value="true"/>
            <list key="index_queries"/>
            <list key="jsonpath_queries"/>
          </operator>
          <operator activated="true" class="web:extract_html_text_content" compatibility="9.0.000" expanded="true" height="68" name="Extract Content (2)" width="90" x="179" y="34">
            <parameter key="extract_content" value="true"/>
            <parameter key="minimum_text_block_length" value="1"/>
            <parameter key="override_content_type_information" value="true"/>
            <parameter key="neglegt_span_tags" value="true"/>
            <parameter key="neglect_p_tags" value="true"/>
            <parameter key="neglect_b_tags" value="true"/>
            <parameter key="neglect_i_tags" value="true"/>
            <parameter key="neglect_br_tags" value="true"/>
            <parameter key="ignore_non_html_tags" value="true"/>
          </operator>
          <connect from_port="document" to_op="Extract Information (2)" to_port="document"/>
          <connect from_op="Extract Information (2)" from_port="document" to_op="Extract Content (2)" to_port="document"/>
          <connect from_op="Extract Content (2)" from_port="document" to_port="document 1"/>
          <portSpacing port="source_document" spacing="0"/>
          <portSpacing port="sink_document 1" spacing="0"/>
          <portSpacing port="sink_document 2" spacing="0"/>
        </process>
      </operator>
      <operator activated="true" class="multiply" compatibility="9.5.000" expanded="true" height="103" name="Multiply" width="90" x="514" y="85"/>
      <operator activated="true" class="select_attributes" compatibility="9.5.000" expanded="true" height="82" name="Select Attributes" width="90" x="659" y="34">
        <parameter key="attribute_filter_type" value="subset"/>
        <parameter key="attribute" value="Titleswon"/>
        <parameter key="attributes" value="LINKS|Titleswon"/>
        <parameter key="use_except_expression" value="false"/>
        <parameter key="value_type" value="attribute_value"/>
        <parameter key="use_value_type_exception" value="false"/>
        <parameter key="except_value_type" value="time"/>
        <parameter key="block_type" value="attribute_block"/>
        <parameter key="use_block_type_exception" value="false"/>
        <parameter key="except_block_type" value="value_matrix_row_start"/>
        <parameter key="invert_selection" value="false"/>
        <parameter key="include_special_attributes" value="false"/>
      </operator>
      <operator activated="true" class="text:generate_extract" compatibility="8.2.000" expanded="true" height="68" name="Generate Extract" width="90" x="793" y="34">
        <parameter key="source_attribute" value="Titleswon"/>
        <parameter key="query_type" value="Regular Expression"/>
        <list key="string_machting_queries"/>
        <parameter key="attribute_type" value="Nominal"/>
        <list key="regular_expression_queries">
          <parameter key="Titleswon_2" value="&lt;/svg&gt;(.*?)&lt;/div&gt;"/>
        </list>
        <list key="regular_region_queries"/>
        <list key="xpath_queries"/>
        <list key="namespaces"/>
        <parameter key="ignore_CDATA" value="true"/>
        <parameter key="assume_html" value="true"/>
        <list key="index_queries"/>
        <list key="jsonpath_queries"/>
      </operator>
      <connect from_op="Read Excel (2)" from_port="output" to_op="Get Pages (2)" to_port="Example Set"/>
      <connect from_op="Get Pages (2)" from_port="Example Set" to_op="Process Documents from Data (2)" to_port="example set"/>
      <connect from_op="Process Documents from Data (2)" from_port="example set" to_op="Multiply" to_port="input"/>
      <connect from_op="Multiply" from_port="output 1" to_op="Select Attributes" to_port="example set input"/>
      <connect from_op="Multiply" from_port="output 2" to_port="result 1"/>
      <connect from_op="Select Attributes" from_port="example set output" to_op="Generate Extract" to_port="Example Set"/>
      <connect from_op="Generate Extract" from_port="Example Set" to_port="result 2"/>
      <portSpacing port="source_input 1" spacing="0"/>
      <portSpacing port="sink_result 1" spacing="0"/>
      <portSpacing port="sink_result 2" spacing="0"/>
      <portSpacing port="sink_result 3" spacing="0"/>
    </process>
  </operator>
</process>


    Hope this helps,

    Regards,

    Lionel
  • b00122599
    b00122599 New Altair Community Member
    Thanks for trying appreciate it. Neil. 
  • b00122599
    b00122599 New Altair Community Member
    Thanks again I think I may need to look at different xpath approach maybe I should be looking at classes. Cheers, Neil.

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