From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-02-28T21:20:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Nokogiri not pulling correct XPath

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Scott B. <sdbarlow@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone could help me. I'm trying to pull text from a
> website using nokogiri and not all the text is not being pulled into my
> variables through XPath.
>
> I have used Firebug (Firefox extension) to pull the correct XPath from
> the page so I'm thinking it should be correct. So far, I have:
>
> variable1 =
> (doc/"/html/body/div[2]/div[7]/div[4]/div[3]/div[6]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div/h2").inner_html
>
> variable 2 =
> (doc/"/html/body/div[3]/div[7]/div[4]/div[3]/div[6]/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/table/tbody/tr/td[2]/strong").inner_html
>
> variable 3 =
> (doc/"/html/body/div[3]/div[7]/div[4]/div[3]/div[6]/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/table/tbody/tr/td[2]/strong[2]").inner_html
>
> Now, variable1 is working but I can't get any values out of variable2 or
> variable3. Is there a different syntax I should be using? To test, I've
> only been outputting to the cli but I want to eventually push these into
> a sqlite3 database.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?

First I would dump the page _as loaded by your program_ (this is
important) to disk and verify that those XPaths do work independently
(e.g. with Firefox's DOM Inspector or Eclipse XML tools).

Kind regards

robert

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