I never needed to solve this problem but if I may nudge you towards this: 1. get the base div.html 2. and pump it to Hpricot for processing and maybe use 'children_of_type "div" call to get to divs you need. a wild suggestion since purely theoretical.
marekj Watirloo: Semantic Page Objects in UseCases http://github.com/marekj/watirloo/ On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:02 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > How can xpath be used to return an array of divs? What would the xpath > look like? > > On Apr 14, 10:30 am, Michael Hwee <[email protected]> wrote: >> Can you try xpath? >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ---- >> From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> To: Watir General <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 7:54:53 AM >> Subject: [wtr-general] First level children only >> >> I have a large tree of nested divs, and I want to get an array of just >> the direct children of any particular div. I do not know ahead of time >> how many divs there will be at any level. Starting from a div, what is >> the Watir code for getting the divs that are direct children (and yes, >> there are other element types mixed in throughout)? >> >> Example >> >> <div id=1> >> <div/> >> <div> >> <div/> >> <div/> >> </div> >> <div/> >> </div> >> >> divs() returns the entire list of all descendant div elements. I want >> just the first level children. >> >> Andy- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
