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

[Teo K. L. <teo...@ho...>]

<blur> can you please provide some partial code describing the solution
using XPath?


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> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 08:55:37 -0500
> From: Mike Bowler <mb...@Ga...>
> Organization: Gargoyle Software
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> Subject: Re: [HtmlUnit] How to get htmltable without table id?
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> 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.
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> 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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