Extracting text that is not in tags. /text() not working in x-path

I'm trying to extract some text, without the sibling and child elements.

However, I can't seem to do so.

/text() doesn't seem to work in Octoparse.

Sample code:

<div class="f-address">
    10 Sunray Street, Unit 7, Whitby, Ontario L1N 8Y3
    <span style="display:block">
        (905) 809-9236
        <p></p>
        <div class="dir-excerpt">
            <p>%Description text%</p>
        </div>
    </span>
</div>

And here is my x-path:

//*[@class='f-address']/span/text()

The result is that it scrapes EVERYTHING inside the SPAN, not just the phone number which I'm looking for.

Official comment

Emma

February 24, 2020 08:20

Hi level42,

Thank you for reaching out.

Please submit a ticket through https://helpcenter.octoparse.com/hc/en-us/requests/new with the task attached. So we can help you revise it.

Please follow the instructions in this tutorial to export the task: How to export a task?

Cheers,

Extracting text that is not in tags. /text() not working in x-path

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