From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2006-05-12T01:10:25+09:00
Subject: Re: extract DIV from HTML

You want to use XPath. Check out the XPath section of the following document:

http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml/docs/tutorial.html

For your specific case, the XPath query would be something like this:

//div[@class='whatever']

Ryan

On 5/11/06, Dor Kalev <dor@octava.co.il> wrote:
> Hi,
> There is a need to find a specific DIV in a large HTML file (by it's
> ID/CLASS) as a routine.
> Perhaps XML approach could have helped me, using REXML but what function
> goes and searches through the whole XML and finds a specific TAG by it's
> attribute?
> Someone suggest that myxml will be used for it, but it's installation
> didn't, yet, go well.
>
> >> c:/instantrails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/myxml/myxml.rb:243:in `initialize': No
> >> such file or directory - test.xml (Errno::ENOENT)
> >> from c:/instantrails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/myxml/myxml.rb:243:in `initialize'
> >> from example10.rb:6
>
> Help will be grately appriciated.