diff --git a/nvchecker_source/htmlparser.py b/nvchecker_source/htmlparser.py
index 077f1e0..104d511 100644
--- a/nvchecker_source/htmlparser.py
+++ b/nvchecker_source/htmlparser.py
@@ -25,10 +25,17 @@ async def get_version_impl(info):
   doc = html.fromstring(res.body, base_url=conf['url'], parser=parser)
 
   try:
-    version = doc.xpath(conf.get('xpath'))
+    els = doc.xpath(conf.get('xpath'))
   except ValueError:
     if not conf.get('missing_ok', False):
       raise GetVersionError('version string not found.')
   except etree.XPathEvalError as e:
     raise GetVersionError('bad xpath', exc_info=e)
+
+  version = [
+    str(el)
+    if isinstance(el, str)
+    else str(el.text_content())
+    for el in els
+  ]
   return version
diff --git a/tests/test_htmlpasrer.py b/tests/test_htmlpasrer.py
index f3be52b..436c27b 100644
--- a/tests/test_htmlpasrer.py
+++ b/tests/test_htmlpasrer.py
@@ -19,3 +19,11 @@ async def test_xpath_missing_ok(get_version):
         "xpath": '//pre[@class="test-is-ok"]/text()',
         "missing_ok": True,
     }) is None
+
+async def test_xpath_element(get_version):
+    assert await get_version("unifiedremote", {
+        "source": "htmlparser",
+        "url": "http://httpbin.org/",
+        "xpath": '//pre[@class="version"]',
+    }) != None
+