From: Espen Falkevik <sp1_falkevik@...>
Date: 2005-06-17T17:15:19+09:00
Subject: Watir , REXML,

Hi
I looked at this project, but I can't seem to find the
examples/code that can help me...
Can anyone tell me how to fetch the HTML code and
convert it into a REXML document?

-Espen-



--- James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:

> Espen Falkevik wrote:
> > ...
> > # open another browser and get's the xml-file
> > ie2 =
> >
>
Watir::IE.start("http://10.47.11.217/getxml?location=/Configuration/Audio/Outputs/Headset/Level")
> > doc = ie2.document()
> 
> 
> What sort of object are you expecting ie2.document()
> to return?
> 
> The call to XPath.first expects a  REXML Document
> object; the WATIR docs 
> really don't say much on this (it only says that
> document() returns the 
> current document. )
> 
> But grepping the WATIR source code does not show any
> references to 
> REXML, so it appears you'll need to first convert
> the IE document or 
> content to a REXML Document object.
> 
> Calling ie2.html gets you the DOM rendering of the
> document HTML; it's 
> *not* the same as the HTML sent to the browser.  If
> it is not already 
> XML (and imagine it is not) you'll need to fix it
> up.  Take a  look at 
> Michael Neumann's Mechanize library for some ways to
> do this.  His code 
> fetches HTML pages and exposes the content via a
> nice API over an REXML 
> document.
> 
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/wee
> 
> 
> 
> James
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