From: Thomas Wieczorek <wieczo.yo@...>
Date: 2008-03-28T20:09:52+09:00
Subject: Re: hrpicot - cant extract what i want from page

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Dan Diebolt <dandiebolt@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Firebug puts in tbody's into xpath's that reach into tables even if the <tbody> tag is not in the html source. Try removing the tbody path and debug using shorter xpaths to initially address content further up in the hierarchy.
>

Yes, Firefox does it to make it more (X)HTML-conform. It took me a
while to get the hang of it. You might download the page using
open-uri and open it with your favourite editor, search the text and
work your way up through the tags.
Most sites don't use <tbody>, so just try it without it.