From: Eric Christopherson <echristopherson@...>
Date: 2012-09-12T07:30:41+09:00
Subject: Re: please help me with making script

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Charmaine Willemsen
<lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> In this example i like to parse birthday and sexe
>
>
> <div class="floatleft">
>       <label for="lblbirthday" id="lblbirthdayLabel">birthday</label>
>       <span id="lblbirthday">6 apr 1961</span>
>     </div>
>     <div class="floatleft" style="margin-left: 50px;">
>       <label for="lblsexe" id="lblsexeLabel">sexe</label>
>       <span id="lblsexe">Male</span>
>     </div>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> These ruby script will not work, please who can help me?
>
> options[:birthday]      = find(:xpath, ".//span[contains(@id,
> \"lblbirthday\")]").text
> options[:sexe]          = find(:xpath, ".//span[contains(@id,
> \"lblsexe\")]").text

Are you using Nokogiri or Hpricot? What happens when you try it?