How to resolve the issue Xpath for node without text but child has text

Question

I am having an issue trying to find a node that does not have text, but their child has an specific text.

Here is an example of the html code:

<strong>

  This is not 

<span>the one</span>

</strong>

<strong>

<span>the one</span>

</strong>

So I need to find the second strong.. but the xpath that I am using is this one:

//strong/span[text()='the one']

This brings me the two elements ... but I need the second one.

I tried something like this:

//strong[not(text())]/span[text()='the one']

but it didn't work. Can anybody help me in this:

Answer 1

This will help you:

//strong[not(normalize-space(text()))]/span[text()='the one']