ImportXML returning multiple cells instead of one

CaptainCsaba

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Hi!

I am trying to get a path in the online Excel on Google Drive. Basically what i am trying to do is for it to return the ISIN code for a certain company on the London Stock Exchange Website. I am trying to do this for all of them and I am really close but can't seem to find the last part. This is what my code looks like (this is for the company "Ashmore group plc"):

Code:
[COLOR=black][FONT=Inconsolata]=[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Inconsolata]importxml[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Inconsolata]([/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=green][FONT=Inconsolata]"https://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/prices-and-markets/stocks/summary/company-summary/GB00B132NW22GBGBXSTMM.html?lang=en"[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Inconsolata],[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Inconsolata] [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=green][FONT=Inconsolata]"//div[@id='pi-colonna2']//div[@class='table-responsive']//table[@summary='Trading Information']//td[@class='name']"[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Inconsolata])[/FONT][/COLOR]

This returns the ISIN code but also 22 other cells because there are multiple "name classes" under the "Trading Information Table". So my question is how can I get only the one I want? Is there a way to tell it that only return the 16th thing it finds? Maybe what could be better if I could tell it to only return the thing that contains the substring "GB00" since every ISIN code starts with that and I would like to use this for multiple companies.
 

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By the way I know That I could use this code and get the ISIN code itself, but this way we would always have to change the code and manually add the current ISIn always, which defeats the purpose:

Code:
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Inconsolata]=[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Inconsolata]importxml[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Inconsolata]([/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=green][FONT=Inconsolata]"https://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/prices-and-markets/stocks/summary/company-summary/GB00B132NW22GBGBXSTMM.html?lang=en"[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Inconsolata],[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=green][FONT=Inconsolata]"//div[@id='pi-colonna2']//div[@class='table-responsive']//table[@summary='Trading Information']//td[text()='GB00B132NW22']"[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Inconsolata])[/FONT][/COLOR]
 
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