From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-06-17T23:04:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Watir , REXML,

Espen Falkevik wrote:
> 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?


The project is Mechanize (though it is listed on the same main page as 
the Wee project; really should get its own page, Michael!).

You can install Mechanize using rubygems.

This example logs into rubyforge.org, using values passed at the command 
line:

require 'mechanize'


agent = WWW::Mechanize.new {|a| a.log = Logger.new(STDERR) }
page = agent.get('http://rubyforge.org/')
link = page.links.find {|l| l.node.text =~ /Log In/ }
page = agent.click(link)
form = page.forms[1]
form.fields.find {|f| f.name == 'form_loginname'}.value = ARGV[0]
form.fields.find {|f| f.name == 'form_pw'}.value = ARGV[1]
page = agent.submit(form, form.buttons.first)

puts page.root.class

img_alt = REXML::XPath.first( page.root, "//img" ).attributes[ 'alt' ]

p img_alt


The 'root' method of the Page instance returns a REXML Document.



James Britt
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