Hi,
This is the latest stable version:
spec
name: 'XPath';
className: #ConfigurationOfXPath;
versionString: #stable;
repository:
'http://www.smalltalkhub.com/mc/PharoExtras/XPath/main'.
Doru
> On Sep 3, 2016, at 8:02 AM, stepharo <steph...@free.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi monty
>
> In which repository this maintained version is?
>
> PharoExtras?
>
> Is it the entry in the catalog?
>
> Stef
>
>
>
> Le 3/9/16 à 07:54, monty a écrit :
>> Peter, you're using an ancient version with bugs that were fixed last fall.
>> The newest version has more tests and correct behavior (checked against a
>> reference implementation). Just download a new Moose image and you'll get
>> it, along with an up to date XMLParser. (But if you insist on upgrading in
>> your old image, run "XPath initialize" after)
>>
>> The binary syntax (there are keyword equivalents now) officially only
>> supports XPath axis selectors like #/ and #// that take node test arguments
>> where the node tests can be name tests like 'name,' '*', 'prefix:*' or type
>> tests like 'text()', 'comment()', 'element(name)'.
>>
>> Filters aren't officially supported with that syntax, but you can always use
>> select: on the result. ?? was removed, but I might add it back as shorthand.
>> Filters are implemented differently now.
>>
>>> From: PBKResearch <pe...@pbkresearch.co.uk>
>>> To: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org
>>> Subject: [Pharo-users] Coding XPath as Smalltalk
>>>
>>> Hello
>>> I am using XPath as a way of dissecting web pages, especially from
>>> Wiktionary. Generally I get good results, but I could get useful extra
>>> flexibility by using the binary Smalltalk operators to represent XPath, as
>>> mentioned at the end of the class comment for XPath. However, the
>>> description there is very terse, and I am having difficulty seeing how to
>>> include more complex expressions, especially attribute tests. I have put
>>> some of my XPath expressions through the XPath compiler and looked at the
>>> output, and out of that I have found expressions which work but look very
>>> clumsy. As an example, I have used the fragment:
>>> document xPath: '//div[@id=''catlinks'']//li//text()'
>>> and found that an equivalent is:
>>> document //'div' ?? [:node :x :y|(node attributeAt: 'id') =
>>> 'catlinks']//'li'//[:n| n isStringNode]].
>>> (I had to put two dummy arguments in the three-argument block to get it to
>>> work.)
>>> Is there a more extensive explanation of the use of these binary
>>> operators? If not, could some kind person show me the most concise
>>> translation of the sample XPath above, to give me a start in working out
>>> more complex cases?
>>> Many thanks for any help.
>>> Peter Kenny
>>
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