From: "henryturnerlists@..." <henryturnerlists@...>
Date: 2008-10-07T16:58:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Hpricot elem index/position

Hi Mark,

I'm writing a broken link reporting type tool. When I find a dodgy tag
I'd like to be able to relay the character position and or line number
to the user. Useful for debugging.

Thanks -h

On Oct 6, 9:13 pm, Mark Thomas <m...@thomaszone.com> wrote:
> 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.