HTMLDocument and Xpath

swilson at acs.on.ca swilson at acs.on.ca
Tue Feb 7 04:59:17 EST 2006


Got the answer - there's a bug in xpath.  I think the HTML parser
converts all the tags (but not the attributes) to uppercase.  Xpath
definitely does not like my first string but, these work fine:

test = Evaluate('//TD', doc_node.documentElement)
test = Evaluate('/HTML/BODY/TABLE/TR/TD', doc_node.documentElement)
test = Evaluate('/HTML/BODY/TABLE/TR/TD[1]', doc_node.documentElement)

Shawn




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