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I'm trying to create a bot. The functionality I need now is to find a way to get only childs of an element without sub-childs. Take this as example:

<Body>
 <child1>Hi</child1>
 <subChild>Woh</subChild>
 <child2>Hey</child2>
 <subChild>Weee</subChild>
</Body>
</HTML>

I want to find all child elements for but when I do so by:

 childs = Body.find_elements_by_xpath("//*")

It's length by len(childs) is 4 instead of 2. Hope you understood.

Any help will be appreciated.

pavelsaman
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asked Jun 12, 2020 at 20:48
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  • * means everything, that won't work. You want to have a look at child. Commented Jun 13, 2020 at 5:42

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childs = Body.find_elements_by_xpath("//*")

You are using xpath "//*" which means any element under the root .

To find direct child element of body use

childs = Body.find_elements_by_xpath("./*")

Here . , Means current node which is the body

And /* means all direct childs of current node , which is body

answered Jun 13, 2020 at 15:14
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  • Thanks man! Works perfectly... Commented Jun 13, 2020 at 20:38

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