comp.lang.ruby

Rob Biedenharn

5/25/2009 10:23:00 PM

On May 25, 2009, at 5:39 PM, No Uu wrote:

> In this code (http://pastebin.com...) unread_links will not
> read
> the <a> elements specified in line 12. I double-checked the XPath with
> the XPather Firefox extension, and it is correct.
>
> Is this some obscure difficulty with Hpricot? I seem to be doing
> everything correctly.
> --


It looks like those <a> tags are first children of the <td
class="row1"> so there is no preceding-sibling for them.

Perhaps you need to post what you expect to read in addition to the
xpath that you're trying to use to find it.

-Rob

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