xpath - How to select following siblings having only classname and child text elements but not knowing order and text of the following sibling?

Question

I'm trying to get all the

which are following siblings of the div with

and which has .//div/span[2] text = Pokémon. I want to stop as soon as I come across an other

.

When the dynamic page looks like this :



    
        
            
            Ashes Reborn
        
    
    ...
    ...
    ...

    
        
            
            Yu-Gi-Oh!
        
    
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...

    
        
            
            Pokémon
        
    
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...

I get my data with the following code because nothing is following Pokemon tournament :

//div[preceding-sibling::div[@class="inply-coupon-row inply-competition-header-row" and .//div/span[2][contains(translate(., 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'),'pok')]]]

Returns all the desired divs :

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...

But, the problem I'm having is that the ordering of tournaments is at random and I don't know if any other tournament will follow Pokemon's.

The webpage usually looks more like this :


    
    
    
        
            
            Ashes Reborn
        
    
    ...
    ...
    ...
    
    
    
        
            
            Yu-Gi-Oh!
        
    
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...

    
    
        
            
            Pokémon
        
    
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...

    
    
        
            
            Magic: The Gathering
        
    
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    
    
    
        
            
            Final Fantasy
        
    
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...


    
        
            
            Keyforge
        
    
    ...
    ...

Any help would be very appreciated !

Siebe Jongebloed · Answer

You can you this:

//div[not(@class="inply-coupon-row inply-competition-header-row")][preceding-sibling::div[@class="inply-coupon-row inply-competition-header-row"][1][div/span[2][contains(.,'Pokémon')]]]

The trick is the predicate [1], it wil find the first preceding-sibling::div[@class="inply-coupon-row inply-competition-header-row"][1] and if that has your Pokémon string it will succeed.

xpath - How to select following siblings having only classname and child text elements but not knowing order and text of the following sibling?

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