Targeting Xpath attributes in Selenium

Issue

I'm using Selenium to scrape a Web Page and I'm having some problems targeting some attributes.

The page I'm trying to scrape looks like this:

<div>
    <span abc> content </span>
    <span def> content2 </span>
<div>

My goal would be to retrieve the text within the "span abc" tag, without selecting the other text included in the "span def" tag.

I've tried multiple approaches and looked at a lot of different resources but I wasn't able to find the right approach, since I don't want to select all the spans at the same time and I don't want to search based on the text within the tags.

Solution

A simple approach would be indexing cause you do not want to select based on

since I don't want to select all the spans at the same time and I don't want to search based on the text within the tags.

If abc is an attribute please use :

//div/span[@abc]

or

with indexing :

(//div/span[@abc])[1]

Answered By - cruisepandey