Question: Xpath expression fails with Could not parse query
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Description
Hi, I am trying to parse the Stay Safe section at this url - http://wikitravel.org/en/San_Francisco and my xpath is //h2[span[text()='Stay safe']]/following-sibling::p//text()
When i run the xpath in Chrome dev console, it evaluates properly and returns text nodes to me. However fails in xsoup at XpathParser.byFunction() and throws
Could not parse query 'h2[span[text()='Stay safe']]': unexpected token at 'span[text()='Stay safe']'
Do you have suggestion on this? TIA.
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Start at XpathParser.byFunction(), where the reported expression fails, and inspect how nested predicates such as span[text()='Stay safe'] are parsed. Reproduce the query from the issue and verify that it parses successfully and returns the expected text nodes.
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