Ultimate XPath Cheatsheet for HTML Parsing in Web Scraping
Ultimate companion for HTML parsing using XPath selectors. This cheatsheet contains all syntax explanations with interactive examples.
To select elements of any name the wildcard character *
can be used:
Wildcard character functions just like any other axis selector and can have predicates and filters applied to it.
For example, we can restrict our wildcard option to a list of names using the name()
function: