From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2008-12-31T09:37:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems with scRUBYt

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 08:33:26AM +0900, Cs Webgrl wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I am currently scraping a page with scRUBYt and am not getting the
> results as expected.
> 
> Instead of the correctly formatted xml document I'm getting the
> following.
> 
> <record>
>   <1>book a</1>
>   <1>book b</1>
>   <1>book c</1>
>   <2>chapter aa</2>
>   <2>chapter bb</2>
>   <2>chapter cc</2>
>   <3>verse aaa</3>
>   <3>verse bbb</3>
>   <3>verse ccc</3>
> </record>

This is a correctly formatted XML document.  You just have numbers for
tag names.

> My code looks like this:
> 
> listing "//a[@id*='volume'>" do
>  book "//a[@class='1']"
>  chapter "//span[@class='2']"
>  verse "//a[@id*='3']"
> end
> 
> Any ideas?

Have you tried something like this:

  book "//2[@id='whatevs']"

That should get you access to the tags.

Hope that helps!

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Aaron Patterson
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