From: Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Date: 2006-11-21T04:42:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby screen scraping

Chris Gallagher wrote:
> Turns out I actually ended up abandonning HTree and the rest. I used 
> net/http in order to fetch the page and then took the table of the page 
> that I was interested in examining and converted that using rexml. I 
> have now been able to grab the values that I wanted using XPath :)
If you are keen on XPaths, why not:

table = XPath.first(doc, "//table[@class='index' && @width='100%']")

then use 'table' instead of 'converted_data'...

or even

module_name = XPath.first(doc, "//table[@class='index' &&
@width='100%']//td[@class='data']/a/]")

etc.

(Untested since I don't have your doc, but it should +- work)

Cheers,
Peter

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