What is the context? Are you first getting the div via xpath and storing it in a variable?
If so, you can just do a regex using something like this right? "<table>[0-9a-zA-Z<> \/]*<\/table>" If you're trying to do this all in 1 xpath locator, can't you do something like: //div[@id="contents"]//table//text() On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Super Kevy <[email protected]> wrote: > How can I get all the content in a div element then strip out a table > element leaving only what elements I want? > > Assume a structure like > > <div id="contents> > <p>Static text I want to offline into a file as a static comparison > later</p> > <p>If the static content is updated by a change request I will detect the > changes by a file compare</p> > <table><tr><td>this table is dynamic is updated with new values all the > time</td></tr><t/able> > <p>More static content</p> > <ul><li>etc, etc</li></ul> > </div> > > > The notion is I store the statics in a file then iterating a test that > can compare the current static elements to an offline file and let me know > if there are changes. > I would like to be able to strip the table from the div wrapper and just > see the whats left for the comparison. > > > -- > -- > Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search > before you ask, be nice. > > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general > [email protected] > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Watir General" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Derek Wrobel 425-243-3355 -- -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
