Re: [HtmlUnit] How to get htmltable without table id?

[Mike B. <mb...@Ga...>]

Christian Sell wrote:
> this raises a question I have had on my mind for a while:
> 
> what about specifying elements via XPath? There are XPath 
> implementations around that can operate on a standard DOM, so if that 
> was accessible (I didnt find it in Htmlunit, but must be around 
> somewhere), one could point to any elements via XPath. There are even 
> free graphical tools available to create XPath expressions from a web page.

If I recall correctly, all you need for xpath is a starting node and the 
xpath statement itself.  You can get the xml node from any HtmlElement 
by calling the getElement() method.  This can then be used as the 
starting element.

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