Scrapy xpath select parent element based on text value in subelement and lacking of element - xpath

Question

I want to select all elements article that don't contain a span element with class status and where the nested a element contains a href attribute which contains the text "rent.html".
I've managed to get the a element like so:
response.xpath('//article[#class="car"]//a[contains(#href,"rent.html")]')
But reading here and trying to select the first parent element article like so returns "data=0"
response.xpath('//article[#class="car"]//a[contains(#href,"rent.html")]//parent::article and not //article[#class="car"]//span[#class="status"]')
I also tried this.
response.xpath('//article[#class="car"][//a[contains(#href,"rent.html")]/article and not //article[#class="car"]//span[#class="status"]')')
I don't know what the expression is for my use case.
<article class="car">
<div>
<div class="container">
<a href="/34625030/rent.html">
</a>
</div>
</div>
</article>
<article class="car">
<div>
<div class="container">
<a href="/34625230/rent.html">
</a>
</div>
</div>
</article>
<article class="car">
<div>
<div class="container">
<a href="/12325230/buy.html">
</a>
</div>
</div>
</article>
<article class="car">
<div>
<div class="container">
<a href="/34632230/rent.html">
</a>
</div>
</div>
<span class="status">Rented</span>
</article>

Answer 1

This XPath expression will do the work:
"//article[not(.//span[#class='status'])][.//a[contains(#href,'rent.html')]]"
The entire command is:
response.xpath("//article[not(.//span[#class='status'])][.//a[contains(#href,'rent.html')]]")
Explanations:
Translating your requirements into XPath syntax.
"select all elements article" - //article
"that don't contain a span element with class status" - [not(.//span[#class='status'])]
" and where the nested a element contains a href attribute which contains the text "rent.html"" - [.//a[contains(#href,'rent.html')]]
I tested the XPath above on the shared sample XML and it worked properly.