From: Bart Braem <bart.braem@...>
Date: 2006-10-11T20:50:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Webpage to RSS

why the lucky stiff wrote:

> I'm not sure I understand exactly, but here's my impression of what you're
> trying to do.
> 
> doc = Hpricot(html_string)
> (doc/:h3).each do |ele|
> rss_title = ele �# okay, so you have the 3rd-level header
> rss_contents = Hpricot::Elements[]
> 
> while ele = h3.next_sibling
> rss_contents << ele
> break if ele.respond_to?(:name) and ele.name == "ul"
> end
> end
> 
> So, basically, you can use `next_sibling` (or `previous_sibling`) to walk
> back and forth between HTML brothers and sisters. �I store it in an
> Hpricot::Elements array, since you can then just call
> `rss_contents.to_html` or do other searches on it.
> 
> This is available since changset [49], so you'll need to either install
> from SVN or monkeypatch.

The next_sibling and previous_sibling methods are just what I needed. 
Now for an svn checkout...

Thanks a lot!
Bart