"div/p" is supposed to get paragraphs that are children of divs. It's
XPath syntax, which jQuery no longer supports.
Try
var dom = $('div > p', data);
or
var dom = $(data).find('div > p');
instead.
--Karl
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Karl Swedberg
www.englishrules.com
www.learningjquery.com
On Apr 4, 2009, at 10:33 AM, MorningZ wrote:
"dom is always null "
What the heck is the selector "div/p" supposed to get?
On Apr 4, 5:40 am, Albert <zinki...@gmail.com> wrote:
$(document).ready(function() {
$.ajax({url: '/page/test.html',
type: 'GET',
dataType: 'html',
timeout: 5000,
error: function(){
alert('error');
},
success: function(data){
var dom = $("div/p",data);
$('#parse_result').append(dom);
}
});
});
// test HTML
<div>
<p><a>test dom tree</a></p>
</div>
I just can't get the code work because dom is always null
actual html is more complex, I just want to use the xpath to navigate
through the getted html
of course this is perhaps not the best way to do this
if you know a powerful way（ I mean have xpath navigate ability) to
parse html pages at server side please do let me know, thanks very
much
