From: Wang Jian <jwang376@...>
Date: 2009-04-20T11:04:22+09:00
Subject: Re: hpricot parsing

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Makes me wonder if ReXML, Hpricot or Nokogiri has a to_hash method...not yet
found.
I'd also be glad to know.
2009/4/20 Marc Farber <mrcfab3@gmail.com>

> Ruby newbie here
>
> Have successfully used hpricot to scrape correct <div> from desired page
> http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/section/obits using
>
> doc = Hpricot(uri above)
> ...
> @grab1 = doc.search("//div[@class='article-bodytext']")
>
> target data is in following logical form
>
> <div>
> <h3>name of funeral home</h3>
> <p>deceased1</p>
> <div>advertising crap</div>
> <h3>funeral home 2</h3>
> <p>deceased 2</p>
> <p>deceased 3</p>
> </div>
>
> I'm struggling to iterate thru this div, plucking a array or hash where
> I can feed a database with each record being a funeral home and person.
> I was thinking I could go thru each of the @grab1 elements and process
> according to tag type and establish the "record" logic thru simple
> knowing that a new record starts with each new h3 tag.
>
> Any help for a newbie with first Ruby script?
>
>
> Thx
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