From: Dan Diebolt <dandiebolt@...>
Date: 2008-07-13T13:43:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Hpricot question

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>What I need, however is a method that tells me the first HTML tag of a fragment, whatever it is

Try this:

a_fragment = '<div id="my_first_div">first div<p>a paragraph</p><span>a span</span></div>'

doc=Hpricot(a_fragment)

tag=doc.search("[1]").first.name

=> "div"



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