From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2009-05-26T07:23:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Hpricot wont parse <a> elements via XPath

On May 25, 2009, at 5:39 PM, No Uu wrote:

> In this code (http://pastebin.com/m36de2949) unread_links will not  
> read
> the <a> elements specified in line 12. I double-checked the XPath with
> the XPather Firefox extension, and it is correct.
>
> Is this some obscure difficulty with Hpricot? I seem to be doing
> everything correctly.
> -- 


It looks like those <a> tags are first children of the <td  
class="row1"> so there is no preceding-sibling for them.

Perhaps you need to post what you expect to read in addition to the  
xpath that you're trying to use to find it.

-Rob

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