XPath query

amjbrown · 05-10-2009, 04:46 PM

I was hoping the group might be able to help me with some trouble I have been having at the very end of my first eBook conversion.

I have a file in Word which has Heading 1, 2 and 3s in it, where Heading 3 is the chapter headings, and I would like a TOC built from them.

The Word file looks perfect, I am using the latest Mac Office suite. I save as rtf, load the rtf file into TextEdit and save as HTML. Everything renders nicely in Safari, so I view the Heading 2 and Heading 3 lines in Text Wrangler to see they are wrapped with:

Code:

<p class="p4">

and

Code:

<p class="p5">

respectively.

I don't do HTML natively, but there are some CSS looking lines at the top, which define something akin to these classes, so I go with it.

The XPath help file has great examples if you are in the <h1> type world, but I try and adapt, and feed the following line in to the right box in the chapter detection dialogue...

Code:

//*[name()='<p class="p4">' or name()='<p class="p5">']

Makes no difference

How stupid am I being, and does anyone have any suggestions as to where I go?

To say I am new to this would be an understatement!

Thanks!

amjb

kovidgoyal · 05-10-2009, 05:10 PM

//*[@class="p4" or @class="p5"]

amjbrown · 05-10-2009, 06:04 PM

Magic!

Thanks so much

05-10-2009, 04:46 PM	#1
amjbrown Addict Posts: 322 Karma: 1231044 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: London, UK Device: Kindle Oasis 3, Kindle app on the iPhone	XPath query I was hoping the group might be able to help me with some trouble I have been having at the very end of my first eBook conversion. I have a file in Word which has Heading 1, 2 and 3s in it, where Heading 3 is the chapter headings, and I would like a TOC built from them. The Word file looks perfect, I am using the latest Mac Office suite. I save as rtf, load the rtf file into TextEdit and save as HTML. Everything renders nicely in Safari, so I view the Heading 2 and Heading 3 lines in Text Wrangler to see they are wrapped with: Code: <p class="p4"> and Code: <p class="p5"> respectively. I don't do HTML natively, but there are some CSS looking lines at the top, which define something akin to these classes, so I go with it. The XPath help file has great examples if you are in the <h1> type world, but I try and adapt, and feed the following line in to the right box in the chapter detection dialogue... Code: //*[name()='<p class="p4">' or name()='<p class="p5">'] Makes no difference How stupid am I being, and does anyone have any suggestions as to where I go? To say I am new to this would be an understatement! Thanks! amjb

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05-10-2009, 05:10 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,169 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	//*[@class="p4" or @class="p5"]

05-10-2009, 06:04 PM	#3
amjbrown Addict Posts: 322 Karma: 1231044 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: London, UK Device: Kindle Oasis 3, Kindle app on the iPhone	Magic! Thanks so much

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