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I am trying to use this xpath to find the number of elements that have a value between X and Y. The problem I am facing is since there is &nbsp in the HTML, and the code doesn't detect the text value.

Xpath:

    //div[@class="prix"]/div[2]/div[2]/span[1][number(translate(text(), ",", ".")) > 4 and number(translate(text(), ",", ".")) < 43]

HTML :

    <div class="d-flex-inline productPrice">
      <span>4,42&nbsp;</span>
      <span>€/HT</span>
    </div>

I tried with replace(text()," ","") and replace(text(),"\&nbsp;\","") and other combinations but nothing worked.

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  • I thought number stripped whitespace?
    – ernie
    Feb 4, 2022 at 0:40

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It's easier to use xpath simply to locate the element and treat fetched string using your programming language.

For example, in Java, you can use a regex to replace anything that is not a number or dot with an empty character, thus keeping only the number representation.

String onlyNumbers = str.replaceAll("^\d+(\.\d+)*$", "");
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  • yeah normaly but for less code i try to get the size of that xpath so if the size is equal to what i have i want need to creat a "for" function to test every article that shows
    – Yan
    Feb 3, 2022 at 14:33
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If your HTML Code is this, 

<body>
    <div class="d-flex-inline productPrice">
        <span>4,42&nbsp;</span>
        <span>€/HT</span>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

Then you can get only the number and ignore the space or any other character from the text you get from getText() using this,

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='d-flex-inline productPrice']/span[1]")).getText().replaceAll("[^\\p{ASCII}]|&nbsp;| ", "");

Here is my working code,

try {
            WebDriver driver;
            System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", System.getProperty("user.dir") + "//chromedriver");
            driver = new ChromeDriver();
            driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
            driver.get("file:///home/eclipse-workspace/demo/test.html");
            Thread.sleep(2000);
            System.out.println(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='d-flex-inline productPrice']/span[1]")).getText().replaceAll("[^\\p{ASCII}]|&nbsp;| ", ""));
            
            Thread.sleep(5000);
            driver.close();
            driver.quit();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
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This a common scenario faced by testing companies who provide automation testing services.

To remove spaces from the text we can have a regular expression check and replace HTML  

String myStr = "4,42&nbsp";
myStr = myStr.replaceAll("[\\s\\u00A0]+$", "") ;

It removes non breaking spaces in the input string.

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You can remove the nbsp using normalize-space(). Based on the html snippet your provided , I can find detect the text value:

//div[@class="d-flex-inline productPrice"]/span[normalize-space()="4,42\u00a0"]

It has already been answered here - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55355770/how-can-i-find-the-exact-value-using-xpath-in-selenium-webdriver-for-text-that-c/55359370#comment97447308_55359370

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