> But given the table structure noted above, will XPath actually work to
> take the variables that I need in each of the columns and insert those
> into database fields? I need to locate 3 separate columns and grab each
> of those by row and insert those into a table. So the html and the
> database table will end up looking the same.
If you need a row at a time, then you just shorten your XPath a bit:
doc = XML::Parser.string(html).parse
doc.find('/table/tr[position()>1]').each do |row|
my_db_insert(row.find('td/text()').to_a)
end
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