Maybe try something like
xpath("div[@class='x']/text()").extract_first().encode('utf8').strip()?
On Monday, February 20, 2017 at 11:51:30 AM UTC+1, Avishay Balderman wrote:
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> I have a spider that runs on a site and extract the text from specific
> table cells.
> Markup example below.
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> <td class="x">I want this text</td>
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> The real text I am looking for is in Hebrew and contains XML > char.
> Example: לנגר שרונה <- לוי שולמית ט5 417
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> My xpath expression works fine and I am able to find the relevant table
> cells. The problem is that when I extract the text I get only *לנגר שרונה*
> which is only part of the text.
> Is it possible that the '>' inside the text causes the problem?
> If it is - is there a workaround?
>
> Thanks
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> Avishay
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