# Extraction rules for meta tag without "elastic" using a XPath selector **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Search\ **Tags:** open-crawler\ **Created:** [May 21, 2026, 7:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/extraction-rules-for-meta-tag-without-elastic-using-a-xpath-selector/386450 "2026-05-21T19:05:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![creekinouryard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/creekinouryard/32/147088_2.png) [@creekinouryard](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/creekinouryard)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 7:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/extraction-rules-for-meta-tag-without-elastic-using-a-xpath-selector/386450/1 "2026-05-21T19:05:17Z")
Using the latest version of Open Crawler and having trouble extracting meta tag values We have a HTML page as follows: ```auto Example Title Content Goes Here **Author:** ![Asmaa\_Oufkir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/asmaa_oufkir/32/31746_2.png) [@Asmaa\_Oufkir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Asmaa_Oufkir)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 5:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/extraction-rules-for-meta-tag-without-elastic-using-a-xpath-selector/386450/3 "2026-05-29T17:42:50Z") Always use the form //\*[local-name()='meta' and @name='...']/@content in your Open Crawler extraction rules when dealing with XHTML or HTML5 documents containing xmlns. This is the most portable solution, independent of specific crawler features, and it is robust regardless of the presence (or absence) of namespaces. If you need to scale (millions of pages), it's best to pre-calculate the values ​​with a small XPath script in Python (lxml) or Java (javax.xml.xpath) to validate your rules before deploying them to Open Crawler.