Re: Looking for a XPATH-like tool for HTML documents

Use htmltidy to turn your HTML into XHTML. Then just use XPath.

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Re^2: Looking for a XPATH-like tool for HTML documents by neniro (Priest) on Aug 22, 2005 at 12:48 UTC
That was the thing i missed to say in my node :)	[reply]
Re^2: Looking for a XPATH-like tool for HTML documents by xern (Beadle) on Aug 24, 2005 at 13:31 UTC
I just scribbled up a command piping tidy and xpath into 'hpath'. `#!/bin/sh # hpath foo.html /path tidy -asxhtml -numeric $1 2>/dev/null \| xpath $2` [download] Hope it helps. Thanks	[reply] [d/l]