How to select following sibling xml tag using xpath

Question

I have an HTML file  from Newegg  and their HTML is organized like below   All of the data in their specifications table is  desc  while the titles of each section are in  name   Below are two examples of data from Newegg pages    lt tr gt       lt td class  name  gt Brand lt  td gt       lt td class  desc  gt Intel lt  td gt   lt  tr gt   lt tr gt       lt td class  name  gt Series lt  td gt       lt td class  desc  gt Core i5 lt  td gt   lt  tr gt   lt tr gt       lt td class  name  gt Cores lt  td gt       lt td class  desc  gt 4 lt  td gt   lt  tr gt   lt tr gt       lt td class  name  gt Socket lt  td gt       lt td class  desc  gt LGA 1156 lt  td gt           lt tr gt       lt td class  name  gt Brand lt  td gt       lt td class  desc  gt AMD lt  td gt   lt  tr gt   lt tr gt       lt td class  name  gt Series lt  td gt       lt td class  desc  gt Phenom II X4 lt  td gt   lt  tr gt   lt tr gt       lt td class  name  gt Cores lt  td gt       lt td class  desc  gt 4 lt  td gt   lt  tr gt   lt tr gt       lt td class  name  gt Socket lt  td gt       lt td class  desc  gt Socket AM3 lt  td gt   lt  tr gt    In the end I would like to have a class for a CPU  which is already set up  that consists of a Brand  Series  Cores  and Socket type to store each of the data   This is the only way I can think of to go about doing this   if parsedDocument xpath tr td  class  name      Brand        CPU brand   parsedDocument xpath tr td  class  name   nextsibling   text   And doing this for the rest of the values  How would I accomplish the nextsibling and is there an easier way of doing this

User · Accepted Answer

How would I accomplish the nextsibling and is there an easier way of doing this?

You may use:

tr/td[@class='name']/following-sibling::td

but I'd rather use directly:

tr[td[@class='name'] ='Brand']/td[@class='desc']

This assumes that:

The context node, against which the XPath expression is evaluated is the parent of all tr elements -- not shown in your question.
Each tr element has only one td with class attribute valued 'name' and only one td with class attribute valued 'desc'.

User · Answer

Try the following-sibling axis  following-sibling  td

User · Answer

For completeness - adding to accepted answer above - in case you are interested in any sibling regardless of the element type you can use variation  following-sibling

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