> Is it possible to retrieve the selected (inspected) element from > Firebug? I imagine something like a javascript function that would > connect to a "stopInspecting" method and get the selected element from > a global variable. Yes, use the command line in Console panel and following functions: $0 - Variable containing the most recently inspected object . $1 - Variable containing the next most recently inspected object . $n(5) - Returns the nth most recently inspected object that has been inspected.
> I need to extract further the XPath and send it to a Java engine on > the server. Which brings my 2nd question: how can I match Firebug's > (or Firefox') XPath to my own Java based HTML parser? Does anyone know > if the normalization engine can be called as an external process from > a Java app? Would Firequark (Firebug extension) help here? http://www.quarkruby.com/2007/9/5/firequark-quick-html-screen-scraping Honza --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
