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by kamocyc 2147 days ago
It depends on the content of the HTML document but I agree with you.

I tried running the algorithm in Chrome. It output much shorter XPath than one copied from Chrome Developer tool.

  e.g. "//*[@id="rso"]/div[4]/div/div[1]/a/h3" => "//*[contains(text(),'(text of the element)')]"
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kabacha 2147 days ago
Your example seems pretty awful though. You'd rarely want to select element based on it's text
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kamocyc 2147 days ago
I think the author claims the XPath is more "robust" because it doesn't depend on indexes of the elements so you can add elements without breaking the XPath. (But it is arguable which one is better ...)
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