From: Darmanto Lie <darmanto.li@...>
Date: 2009-12-25T23:41:11+09:00
Subject: Re: [ask]How to remove HTML part of a text

sorry for double posting, it seems there is no edit post feature...

I have a problem with HTML parsing issue. I'll try to explain my problem 
as clear as I can, and I hope someone can help me with this.

I've been given a task to fetch a specific data from HTML page. I'm 
planning to use hpricot plugin to do this.
It's an online shop page, and I have to fetch cloth size information.

The product information part of the page can be in either of these 2 
formats:

<table>
  <tr>
    ... Some informations ...
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Available in:</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>... (The data I want to fetch) ...</td>
  </tr>
</table>

OR

<table>
  <tr>
    ... Some informations ...
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>... Content ...</td>
    <td>Available in:</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>... Content  ...</td>
    <td>... (The data I want to fetch) ...</td>
  </tr>
</table>

The clue is: The row whose data I want to fetch, is always preceeded by 
a row containing a string "Available in".
And I want to fetch NOT the content of the row, BUT the content of the 
last cell (<td>) contained inside the row.

It's complex, and I have no idea on what to do here. Can someone help me 
with this?
Thanks for the concern.

PS: The table snippet I post above may be contained inside another 
table.
Apparently, the online shop use tables to do page formatting..
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