Find childs of element without sub-childs - Python - Selenium

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I'm trying to create a bot. The functionality I need now is to find a way to get only childs of an element without sub-childs. Take this as example:

<Body>
   <child1>Hi</child1>
       <subChild>Woh</subChild>
   <child2>Hey</child2>
       <subChild>Weee</subChild>
</Body>
</HTML>

I want to find all child elements for but when I do so by:

    childs = Body.find_elements_by_xpath("//*")

It's length by len(childs) is 4 instead of 2. Hope you understood.

Any help will be appreciated.

* means everything, that won't work. You want to have a look at child. — pavelsaman, Jun 13 '20 at 5:42

PDHide · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-13 15:14:25Z

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childs = Body.find_elements_by_xpath("//*")

You are using xpath "//*" which means any element under the root .

To find direct child element of body use

childs = Body.find_elements_by_xpath("./*")

Here . , Means current node which is the body

And /* means all direct childs of current node , which is body

answered Jun 13 '20 at 15:14

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