> On 03 Sep 2016, at 08:17, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Indeed, Monty is doing a great job at maintaining and evolving the XML
> support.
Yes indeed !
> Cheers,
> Doru
>
>
>> On Sep 3, 2016, at 8:06 AM, Hernán Morales Durand <hernan.mora...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you Monty for the clarification. I should say the original XPath
>> package was written by Phil Hargett and I just added a couple of methods.
>> Glad you rewrote the lib!
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Hernán
>>
>>
>> 2016-09-03 3:01 GMT-03:00 monty <mon...@programmer.net>:
>>
>> Hernan, the PharoExtras/XPath repo has a major rewrite of your package to
>> support all of XPath 1.0 + XPath 2.0 extensions like the element() and
>> attribute() type tests and namespace literals in name tests like
>> '{namespaceURI}localName'. A rewrite was needed because the old lib only
>> implemented a small subset of the spec and would infinite loop on some
>> inputs.
>>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2016 at 3:56 PM
>> From: "Hernán Morales Durand" <hernan.mora...@gmail.com>
>>
>> To: "Any question about pharo is welcome" <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Coding XPath as Smalltalk
>>
>>
>> 2016-09-01 16:51 GMT-03:00 PBKResearch <pe...@pbkresearch.co.uk>:
>> Hi Hernan
>>
>>
>> I don’t understand your first question – I can’t see a connection between
>> SPARQL and what I am doing.
>>
>>
>>
>> You could get the Wikitionary data by querying a SPARQL endpoint
>> http://wiktionary.dbpedia.org/sparql instead of scrapping web pages (which
>> seems more difficult)
>>
>>
>> I downloaded XPath from http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/PharoExtras/XPath/.
>> However, I am probably using a somewhat out of date version; I downloaded it
>> about a year ago.
>>
>>
>>
>> I don't know about that version. I copied an old version from SqueakSource
>> (with permission) and updated from time to time, but there is no much. There
>> is also a XPath2 repository which you may try.
>>
>> Hernán
>>
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> From: Pharo-users [mailto:pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org] On Behalf Of
>> Hernán Morales Durand
>> Sent: 01 September 2016 18:54
>> To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Coding XPath as Smalltalk
>>
>>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>>
>> 2016-09-01 10:26 GMT-03:00 PBKResearch <pe...@pbkresearch.co.uk>:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>>
>> I am using XPath as a way of dissecting web pages, especially from
>> Wiktionary.
>>
>>
>> Any specific reason to not use the SPARQL endpoint?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Which XPath version are you using? How did you installed it?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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