hpricot search help

[Junkone]

hello
I am trying to grab the table that has a html comment in it. for eg

<TABLE cellSpacing=1 width="80%" align=center border=0><!--
startingtable -->

how can i do using search functionality in hpricot.

appreciate any help

 

[Todd Benson]

hello
I am trying to grab the table that has a html comment in it. for eg

<TABLE cellSpacing=1 width="80%" align=center border=0><!--
startingtable -->

how can i do using search functionality in hpricot.

appreciate any help

There's probably a better way, but without looking at the docs I would
probably find my table and then maybe #inner_html followed with a
regexp.

For example...

require "hpricot"
str = <TABLE cellspacing=1 width= 80% align=center border=0><!--
startingtable -->
doc = Hpricot(str)
p doc.search("table").inner_html

=>"<!-- startingtable -->\n"

It's interesting to note that hpricot picked it out even though that
string is really malformed html.

Todd

 

[daniel hoey]

There's probably a better way, but without looking at the docs I would
probably find my table and then maybe #inner_html followed with a
regexp.

For example...

require "hpricot"
str = <TABLE cellspacing=1 width= 80% align=center border=0><!--
startingtable -->
doc = Hpricot(str)
p doc.search("table").inner_html

=>"<!-- startingtable -->\n"

It's interesting to note that hpricot picked it out even though that
string is really malformed html.

Todd

I think that this will do it:

</div>')

table = (h/'table > comment()')[0].parent