hi... i've got the following situation, with the following test url: "http://schedule.psu.edu/soc/fall/Alloz/a-c/acctg.html#".
i can generate a list of the tables i want for the courses on the page. however, when i try to create the xpath query, and plug it into the xpath within python, i'm missing something. if i have a parent xpath query, that generates a list of results/nodes... how can i then use the individual parent node, and trigger off of it, to get further information. i tried using the following chunk of code with no luck. #s is the html from the course file d = libxml2dom.parseString(s, html=1) #at this point, we should have a vaild "d" representation print "sdddd=",s aa=libxml2dom.toString(d) print "hereeeeee \n\n\n" print "aa",aa #sys.exit() # **** course names cpath='//table[position()>0]/descendant::td[position()[EMAIL PROTECTED]"85%"]/../t d[1]/font/a[2]/text()' cpath_=[] cpath_=d.xpath(cpath) print "len=",len(cpath_) if len(cpath_)>0: for cpath in cpath_: #get the coursename info cname=cpath.toString() print "cpath=",cpath print "cname=",cname rr="./../../../../../../following-sibling::table//tr[position()>1]" rr=cpath.xpath() print "rrlen=",len(rr) print rr[0].toString() sys.exit() i'm assuming that there's a libxml2node method that will do what i need that i'm missing... pointers/comments would be helpful here... thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list