From: Mark Thomas <mark@...>
Date: 2009-11-10T11:20:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Nokogiri

> 7stud's approach works, but Mark's doesn't (currently).

Strange... it works for me.

mark@ubuntu:~$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i486-linux]

Nokogiri 1.4.0
libxslt 1.1.24-2ubuntu2

Here's the entire working program:

require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'

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 |k,xpath|
  puts "#{k} = " + doc.search(xpath).to_s.strip
end

# Output:
addr = some address
citystzip = city, st zip
country = United States
phone = Phone:

        (123) 456-7890
name = Some Institute name