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    <p>Note: The question has been updated since some of the early answers were given. It's still the same question, just hopefully clearer.</p> <p>I'm trying to get a site scraper working properly and I'm having problems coming up with a suitable xpath string for some table cells.</p> <pre><code>&lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="Label" width="20%" valign="top"&gt;Uninteresting section&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="Data"&gt; I don't care about this&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="Data"&gt; I don't care about this&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="Label" width="20%" valign="top"&gt;Interesting section&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="Data"&gt; I want this-1&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="Data"&gt; I want this-2&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="Data"&gt; I want this-n&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="Label" width="20%" valign="top"&gt;Uninteresting section&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="Data"&gt; I don't care about this&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="Data"&gt; I don't care about this&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt; </code></pre> <p>I want the contents of all the Data fields in the interesting section. There can be an arbitrary number of these. I don't care about anything else in the code, but I need all these.</p> <p>In the example above: I want this-1 I want this-2 I want this-n</p> <p>If it's relevant, I'm using xml.dom.minidom and py-dom-xpath with Python 2.7.</p>
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    2. COThere's a table with more tables inside it, I left some of the structure out because I can already match it. My problem is with the section I posted above, I'm not sure how to get all the contents of the data cells in this specific section without getting them from other sections too. The contents of the label cell is the only thing that makes the sections different in terms of matching, the structure is the same for all the sections.
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