On 01/10/2009, Silvester Pozarnik <[email protected]> wrote:
> sebb skrev:
>
> > On 22/09/2009, Barnabas Davoti <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Noel O'Brien wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Why not use the following XPath extractor instead:
> > > > //sele...@name="A"]/option/@value
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >  That's a good news... I was wondering why should we use regular
> expressions
> > > for extracting data from an XML document... of course as far as it's XML
> > > (XHTML), but anyway in this case it's proper XML.
> > >
> > >  I guess xpath is not an option if the page is html (so not XML but
> SGML) or
> > > the document is not well-formed XML.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I don't think it's possible to do it with a single RE.
> >
> > However, one can use the RE extractor to extract the specific set of
> > options into a variable, and then use the __regexFunction() to split
> > the variable. But XPath is simpler.
> >
> > It might be useful to enhance the RE extractor to operate on a subset
> > of the body...
> >
> >
> >
>  Jepp, XPath may work, but I am still interested in a template for looping
> thought the results of __regexFunction() as a second level looping because
> HTML codes are often not balanced, especially in tables.

Which is where Tidy comes in handy.

>  BR
>  Silvester Pozarnik
>
>

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