using nextSibling from BeautifulSoup outputs nothing

Question

I'm trying to use BeautifulSoup on the following:

<h4>Hello<br /></h4>
<p><img src="http://url.goes.here" alt="hiya" class="img" />May 28, 1996</p>

For this example, let's say I have the <h4> tag saved in the variable tag. When I type print tag.text the output is Hello, as expected.

However, when I use print tag.nextSibling the output is nothing. When I type print tag.nextSibling.nextSibling, the output is <p><img src="http://url.goes.here" alt="hiya" class="img" />May 28, 1996</p>. What is going on? Why do I have to double up on the use of .nextSibling to get to the <p> tag in my example? This is consistently an error.

Answer 1

Apparently, .nextSibling will grab white text. So in the actual page I'm working with, there is white text between the <h4> and <p> tags, which is why I have to double.

Evidence

Writing:

print tag.__class__
print tag.nextSibling.__class__
print tag.nextSibling.nextSibling.__class__

Yields:

<class 'BeautifulSoup.Tag'>
<class 'BeautifulSoup.NavigableString'>
<class 'BeautifulSoup.Tag'>