4 items tagged “xpath”
2008
"Why doesn't jQuery have an XPath CSS Selector implementation?" For now, my answer is: I don't want two selector implementations - it makes the code base significantly harder to maintain, increases the number of possible cross-browser bugs, and drastically increases the filesize of the resulting download.
2007
lxml.cssselect (via) lxml includes an implementation of CSS 3 selectors, which compiles them to XPath expressions. Should be a useful tool for parsing Microformats from Python.
2005
Mozilla XPath Documentation. This is extremely useful for writing Greasemonkey user scripts.
2003
Using XPath to mine XHTML
This morning, I finally decided to install libxml2 and see what all the fuss was about, in particular with respect to XPath. What followed is best described as an enlightening experience.
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