From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2006-07-09T08:58:18+09:00
Subject: Re: WAtir usage

On Jul 8, 2006, at 22:04, Xavier Noria wrote:

> On Jul 8, 2006, at 19:25, junkone@rogers.com wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> I found Watir and am excited to use it. I cannot find much  
>> examples in
>> terms of data scraping. I have gotne to a point wherei can use it to
>> submit form details.
>> I need to scrape data from the tables etc. How do i do it.
>> For eg my if ie is my browser object, how do i get the tables in the
>> page and extract data from 3 table in the page into a array?

> There you see what can be done grabbing the ie attribute of the  
> Watir::IE object, in case the wrapping interface does not address  
> some particular need. Additionally, I have found reading watir.rb  
> very instructive, you have a better knowledge of what you are doing  
> and may give context and idioms.

By the way, regarding the question about tables you can do this:

   table = ie.table(:index, 3)

That index is 1-based and returns an object of type Watir::Table or  
nil. As per the definition of order between tables, it is delegated  
to IE this way:

   @ieController.document.getElementsByTagName("TABLE")

-- fxn