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tram · 11-26-2010, 12:59 PM

I have an XPath visualization tool that I've been using to test expressions, querying against the HTML file that gets left in the debug 'processed' directory. Using that tool, I pull out the elements I'm looking for, but I use matches() instead of re:test. The tool isn't written in python, so that's probably the difference.

I can check the manual, but is there a standard method for testing xpath queries aside from the generate-and-view method? I feel like the regular expression I'm trying to use isn't particularly complicated, and that it should work just fine.

11-26-2010, 12:59 PM	#4
tram Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Kindle	I have an XPath visualization tool that I've been using to test expressions, querying against the HTML file that gets left in the debug 'processed' directory. Using that tool, I pull out the elements I'm looking for, but I use matches() instead of re:test. The tool isn't written in python, so that's probably the difference. I can check the manual, but is there a standard method for testing xpath queries aside from the generate-and-view method? I feel like the regular expression I'm trying to use isn't particularly complicated, and that it should work just fine.