How to get the preceding element?

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Answer 1

I know this is old and if you didn't know the containing element preceding the "Name." element this wouldn't be a solution for you. BUT, if you were wanting to find exactly that element and there are several "171" elements all over the page. The way to distinguish it from the rest, you could use the following.

//p[b[contains(., 'Next.')]]//a[contains(., '171')]