Thanks, that makes a little bit more sense. I had understood that // was
relative and / was absolute, but it seems to just be at least to me a really
confusing description of what // is (for example at
https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xpath_syntax.asp there is "Selects nodes in the
document from the current node that match the selection no matter where they
are", I'm not sure why it is relevant to select from the current node if you
also select no matter where they are)
Incase anyone else is dumb like me and manages to find this, I'll also mention
that
xpath1[0].xpath('.//table')
doesn't return anything, but
xpath1[0].xpath('.//tr')
returns the one row that I want to see, while
xpath1[0].xpath('//tr')
returns the rows from both tables
Google seems to think it is a stupid question, and I don't have a reason to
need it now, but is there some way to exclude/delete elements/nodes outside the
selection from the output/document?
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