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Firebug “Copy XPath” | June 6th, 2007

I have been playing around with the Ruby plugin Hpricot the last few days while I have been creating a news reading tool. It is pretty darn cool and hopefully I will get my project done this weekend.

However, the point of this post is Just a note for others using Firebug to get XPath expressions for use in Hpricot – don’t do it!!! Well ok, you can do it, but make sure you watch out for any <tbody> elements that Firebug sneaks in there that don’t exist … I spent _way_ too long figuring that one out.

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2 Responses to “Firebug “Copy XPath””

  1. Tero Says:

    Fantastic, removing the tbody elements worked for me!

    Thanks for the hint

  2. Dave Johnson Says:

    I am glad that it was helpful Tero – now my hours of hair pulling have been vindicated!

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