Mar 31
When using a plugin in Firefox to get the XPath of an item, be aware that Firefox inserts tbody tags into the source. So, if you get an XPath like
/html/body/div[@id='content']/table/tbody/tr/td[1]/div/table/tbody/tr/td[1]/table/tbody/tr[2]/td[3]
Do a View Source in Firefox and see if the tbody tags are actually in the source or not. If not, remove the tbody tags in the XPath then the modified XPath will work with Hpricot.
August 27th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Thanks for the useful tip… I wish I had seen this before spending hours trying to debug.