[FIXED] How to skip paragraphs with comments in XPath expression?

Issue

I'm trying to scrape websites like this with the following Xpath expression:

.//div[@class="tresc"]/p[not(starts-with(text(), "<!--"))]

The thing is that the first paragraph is a comment section, so I'd like to skip it:

<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:WordDocument>
<w:View>Normal</w:View>
<w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom>
<w:HyphenationZone>21</w:HyphenationZone>
<w:PunctuationKerning />
<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas />
<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid
<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent
<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>
<w:Compatibility>
<w:BreakWrappedTables />
<w:SnapToGridInCell />
<w:WrapTextWithPunct />
<w:UseAsianBreakRules />
<w:DontGrowAutofit />
</w:Compatibility>
<w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel>
</w:WordDocument>
</xml><![endif]-->

Unfortunately, my expression does not skip the paragraph with comments. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Solution

Comments are not part of text(), they constitute a node of their own: comment(). To exclude p's that contain comments, use

p[not(comment())]

Answered By - choroba