concat each two nodes

Question

I'm having the following html code:

<dl>
  <dt>1</dt>
  <dd>2</dd>
  <dt>3</dt>
  <dd>4</dd>
  <dt>5</dt>
  <dd>6</dd>
  <dt>7</dt>
  <dd>8</dd>
</dl>

Now I want to concatenate each dt and dd tag, is that possible with xpath 1.0? So the results should be:

Tried already something like this, but didn't work:

//*/dl[concat(dt/text(), ./following-sibling::node()/text())]

Can you also use something in XPath's outer environment, such as XSLT or Javascript or Java? Otherwise, I think you are out of luck. — LarsH, Oct 09 '14 at 14:00
Too bad, but I got it working now. Had to work with python so... See my answer below. — Erik van de Ven, Oct 09 '14 at 14:34

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 09 '14 at 14:35

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Got it working using python:

content = sel.xpath('//*/dl').extract()

p = re.compile(ur'<dt[^>]*>(.*?)<\/dd[^>]*>')

for s in p.findall(str(prod_specs)):

    print BeautifulSoup(s).text

answered Oct 09 '14 at 14:35

Erik van de Ven

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