From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2008-08-13T12:42:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Hpricot and xpath

chen li wrote:

> I follow your suggestion and change to '.header'  or ".header" instead of "#header" and and it works. Ruby returns the tag's path like this:  /tag1/tag2/div. But I see nowhere in the document about  using "." and "#" in xpath() or css_path(). Do I miss something in the docucment?

That's just the thing. I studied the crap out of HTML, XHTML, and light CSS, and 
never learned until encountering assert_select that CSS has its own query 
notation. Others with different career paths have learned nothing but - and they 
all assume you know the same things.

Hpricot can handle _light_ XPath, and can handle various CSS Selector notations. 
The documenters have all assumed that someone else taught you how they work. So 
google for "CSS Selector", without x-ref'ing Hpricot!

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   Phlip