From: Lyndon Samson <lyndon.samson@...>
Date: 2005-09-13T08:40:15+09:00
Subject: Re: website screen scraping with Mechanize or Rubyful Soup

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> And Lyndon, I'm a huge fan of Tidy for cleaning up my own web pages,
> but I'm not sure it's helpful here, as was aiming to use regexes to
> parse the HTML rather than the DOM.



Well, DOM allows you to use XPath, which is a powerfull query mechanism.

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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp03225.html?ca=3Ddgr=
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XQuery specific, but relies
on XPath.

And example from the article

//td[contains(a/small/text(), "New York, NY")]

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