From: Mark Thomas <mark@...>
Date: 2008-10-07T05:13:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Hpricot elem index/position

On Oct 6, 10:19 am, "henryturnerli...@googlemail.com"
<henryturnerli...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Trying to find the String index of an Hpricot::Elem within its doc.
> For example..
>
> doc = Hpricot("<a>bob</a><a>james</a><a>dan</a>")
> elem = doc.search("a")[1]
> elem.start #=> 10 ( the first '<' of the second a tag.)
>
> and eventually the following would be good..
>
> elem.length #=> 12
> elem.end #=> 21
>
> Any thoughts appreciated!
> Henners

My first thought is: Why do you want that information? Character
position is meaningless in an XML and HTML DOM. Whitespace can change
character positions without affecting the DOM at all.

-- Mark.