Best regards,

Eric Chen

On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Mario <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I'm having issues with getting some values from this page:
> http://www.remax-malta.com/Maisonette-For-Sale-St-Pauls-Bay-North_240041024-145
> To be more specific here's a picture of what I can(colored green) and 
> can't(colored red) scrape:
> http://i.imgur.com/xT6wTtl.png
> Example of writing xpath for Total rooms is:
> response.xpath('//span[text()="Total Rooms:"]/preceding::span/text()').
> extract()[-1]
> This prints: u'3' which is value I'm after.
> But when I try to write xpath for Plot Size (m²) like this one:
> response.xpath('//span[text()="Plot Size (m²)"]/preceding::span/text()').
> extract()[-1]
> I get this error:
> ValueError: All strings must be XML compatible: Unicode or ASCII, no NULL 
> bytes or control characters
> I know I get this because of '²' character. Can somebody help me out with 
> writing proper xpath? Or maybe there's another way of getting value from 
> xpath?
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