Xpath get element with condition - html

Question

I have some block of code and need to get data out of it and trying different version of xpath commands but with no success.
<div>
<div class="some_class">
<a title="id" href="some_href">
<nobr>1<br>
</a>
</div>
<div class="some_other_class">
<a title="name" href="some_href">
<nobr>John<br>
</a>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="some_class">
<a title="id" href="some_href">
<nobr>2<br>
</a>
</div>
<div class="some_other_class">
<a title="name" href="some_href">
<nobr>John<br>
</a>
</div>
</div>
// and many blocks like this
So, this div blocks are the same except they are different by content of its sub-element. I need xpath query to get John's href which <a title="id"> is equal to 1.
I've tried something like this:
//div[./div/nobr='1' AND ./div/nobr='John']
to get only div that contains data I need and then wouldn't be hard to get John's href.
Also, I've managed to get John's href with:
//a[./nobr='John'][#title='name']/#href
but that way it doesn't depend on value from <a title="id"...> element but it has to depend on it.
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I think what you want is
//div/div[a/#title='id']/following-sibling::div[1]/a/#href
which, given a well-formed input document, will return (individual results separated by --------):
href="some_href"
-----------------------
href="some_href"
You did not explain it very clearly though, as kjhughes has noted, and perhaps your sample HTML is not ideal.
Regarding your attempted path expressions, as the input is HTML, it is hard to know whether
<nobr>John<br>
means that "John" is inside the nobr element or not.

Answer 2

Thanks Mathias, your example was helpful, but as there are many elements with #title='id' it isn't reliable solution that will always catch good elements.
I've managed to make workaround, first catched the whole div, and then extract href I need.
//div[./div/a[#title='name']/nobr='John' and ./div/a[#title='id']/nobr='1']
//a[./nobr='John'][#title='name']/#href