Re: xpath help
| From: | Gary . | Date: | Mon, 10 May 2010 13:34:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: xpath help | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.general |
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On 5/9/10, Peter Lind wrote:
> On 9 May 2010 10:31, Gary wrote:
>> If I have a document containing, say:
>> <html>
...
>>
>> How do I get at "bar2"? I tried everything, based on an xpath from
>> Firebug (Firefox plugin), but kept getting NULL.
>>
>
> try //table//font - that should give you all the font elements in
> table elements. Given your layout, you're then looking for
> $list->item(3)
I found out what my problem was. Something, somewhere - the plugin,
Firefox itself, something - decided to "help me" by inserting TBODY
elements into the xpath which just plain did not exist in the original
HTML.