From: Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Date: 2008-10-16T02:43:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Mechanize and XPath

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On 2008.10.15., at 19:08, Ruby Newbie wrote:

>
> Is there a way to select links in a scraped mechanize page using XPath
> selectors ?
>
> For example...all links on the second TABLE on the page.
>
>
> I know it is possible with hpricot but i need the links to be used by
> mechanize.

 From the Mechanize guide (http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/mechanize/files/GUIDE_txt.html 
):

Mechanize uses hpricot to parse html. What does this mean for you? You  
can treat a mechanize page like an hpricot object. After you have used  
Mechanize to navigate to the page that you need to scrape, then scrape  
it using hpricot methods:
agent.get('http://someurl.com/').search("//p[@class='posted']")
HTH,
Peter
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