How to get a single text node in Selenium WebDriver [duplicate]

Answer 1

The simplest way I've found is by getting the parent small node and the child span node and removing the number of characters in the child from the text of the parent:

public String getTextNode() {
  WebElement parent = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//small")); //or By.tagName("small")
  WebElement child = parent.findElement(By.xpath(".//span")); //or By.tagName("span")
  return parent.getText().substring(child.getText().length()).trim();
}