From: Don Norcott Date: 2010-10-21T07:18:39+09:00 Subject: Re: Help missing something BASIC My issue is not with anything you have shown me and not with my ability to get the code working or get the next piece code working predictably. My only issue is conceptual. I have no problem understanding that node contains the entire tree structure since I am able to return all the itemNumbr elements with node.xpath("//td[@class='itemNumbr']") What I am not able to do is output proof to convince myself that the node contains other than the selected table (ie inspect, parse, to_s, to_html all return the single table). This is my last post - I really have no issue other than the conceptual one above and I will re-visit the contents of node again when I have time. Thanks again for all your help. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.