Comments on: Using XPath on real-world HTML documents http://nicklothian.com/blog/2006/09/11/using-xpath-on-real-world-html-documents/ My Blog, Take 4 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:08:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: f1sh http://nicklothian.com/blog/2006/09/11/using-xpath-on-real-world-html-documents/comment-page-1/#comment-755 f1sh Wed, 26 May 2010 10:18:47 +0000 http://nicklothian.com/blog/?p=12#comment-755 This is great stuff. I had the problem of unquoted html attributes (such as 'href=http://google.com') which screwed up my initial approaches using SAX/JDOM/.... I had to figure out the imports (maven dependencies) which were 'tagsoup' and 'xom'. Note: The line XPathContext context = new XPathContext("html", "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml") causes all html tags in your document to only be xpath-addressable using the prefix html. Meaning: In order to get all html links with images inside them, you have to use doc.query("//html:a[//html:img]", context); //note the prefix html best regards This is great stuff.
I had the problem of unquoted html attributes (such as ‘href=http://google.com’) which screwed up my initial approaches using SAX/JDOM/….
I had to figure out the imports (maven dependencies) which were ‘tagsoup’ and ‘xom’.

Note:
The line
XPathContext context = new XPathContext(“html”, “http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”)
causes all html tags in your document to only be xpath-addressable using the prefix html.
Meaning: In order to get all html links with images inside them, you have to use
doc.query(“//html:a[//html:img]“, context); //note the prefix html

best regards

]]> By: priit http://nicklothian.com/blog/2006/09/11/using-xpath-on-real-world-html-documents/comment-page-1/#comment-660 priit Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:28:09 +0000 http://nicklothian.com/blog/?p=12#comment-660 That's it, so far I've seen no-one and my attempts have failed :) That’s it, so far I’ve seen no-one and my attempts have failed :)

]]> By: Nick Lothian http://nicklothian.com/blog/2006/09/11/using-xpath-on-real-world-html-documents/comment-page-1/#comment-659 Nick Lothian Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:20:35 +0000 http://nicklothian.com/blog/?p=12#comment-659 Yes, for sure. You could use TagSoup to cleanse HTML data in RSS/Atom. I don't know of anyone has done it, though Yes, for sure. You could use TagSoup to cleanse HTML data in RSS/Atom. I don’t know of anyone has done it, though

]]> By: priit http://nicklothian.com/blog/2006/09/11/using-xpath-on-real-world-html-documents/comment-page-1/#comment-658 priit Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:33:37 +0000 http://nicklothian.com/blog/?p=12#comment-658 Hei, Can you tell, if there's a possibility to pair up Tagsoup and Rome? Hei,

Can you tell, if there’s a possibility to pair up Tagsoup and Rome?

]]>