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Lxml.html Parsing With XPath And Variables

I have this HTML snippet

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    What this returns is a boolean, which will be true if the condition ...='One' is true for any of the nodes in the result set at the left side of the xpath expression. And that's why you get the error in your second example: True[0] is not valid.

    You probalby want all nodes matching the expession, having 'One' as text. The corresponding expression would be:

    test=html.xpath("//ul[@class='toc']/li[@class='level2']/div[@class='li']/a[text()='One']")
    

    This returns a nodeset as result, or if you just need the url as a string:

    test=html.xpath("//ul[@class='toc']/li[@class='level2']/div[@class='li']/a[text()='One']/@href")
    # returns: ['#link1']
    

    Solution 2:

    I tried mata's response, but for me didn't work:

    div_name = 'foo'
    my_div = x.xpath(".//div[@id=%s]" %div_name)[0]
    

    I found this on their website http://lxml.de/xpathxslt.html#the-xpath-method for those that might have the same problem :

    div_name = 'foo'
    my_div = x.xpath(".//div[@id=$name]", name=div_name)[0]
    

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