From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2009-11-09T14:37:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Nokogiri

Mark Thomas wrote:
> This should get what you want:
> 
> prefix = '//div[@class="sectionHeaderText"]/following-sibling::'
> xpaths = {
>  :name => "#{prefix}b/text()",
>  :addr => "#{prefix}text()[2]",
>  :citystzip => "#{prefix}text()[3]",
>  :country => "#{prefix}text()[4]",
>  :phone => "#{prefix}text()[5]",
> }  
> xpaths.each do |data,xpath|
>   puts "#{data} = " + doc.search(xpath).to_s.strip
> end
> 
> -- Mark.

I was wondering if you could answer some xpath questions? I would think 
that in this xpath:

div[@class="sectionHeaderText"]/following-sibling::text()[2]

the part:

div[@class="sectionHeaderText"]/following-sibling

would be the <b> tag.  Then:

div[@class="sectionHeaderText"]/following-sibling::text()

would be the <b> tag's text or "Some Institute name".  So then the 
following [2]:

div[@class="sectionHeaderText"]/following-sibling::text()[2]

doesn't seem applicable.  And in fact, when I run your code, it doesn't 
work:


addr =
citystzip =
name = Some Institute name
country =
phone =



===========

html =<<ENDOFHTML
<html>
<body>
<h2>Association Detail</h2>

    <div class="sectionHeaderText" style="padding-bottom: 6pt;">DETAIL
DIRECTORY RESULTS</div>

    <b>Some Institute name</b><Br><br>
   some address<Br> city, st zip<br>

    United States <Br>

      Phone:

        (123) 456-7890<Br>

    <br>
)    Web address: <a href="Http://www.xyz.org"
target="_Blank">www.xyz.org</a><Br>

    <br><br>

    <A href="javascript:history.back();">Back to Search Results</
a><br><br>


    <A href="AssociationSearch.cfm">Search Again</a>
</body>
</html>
ENDOFHTML


doc = Nokogiri::HTML.parse(html)

prefix = '//div[@class="sectionHeaderText"]/following-sibling::'
xpaths = {
 :name => "#{prefix}b/text()",
 :addr => "#{prefix}text()[2]",
 :citystzip => "#{prefix}text()[3]",
 :country => "#{prefix}text()[4]",
 :phone => "#{prefix}text()[5]",
}
xpaths.each do |key, val|
  puts "#{key} = " + doc.search(val).to_s.strip
end

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