Thanks!
> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2016 at 4:31 AM
> From: "Sven Van Caekenberghe" <s...@stfx.eu>
> To: "Any question about pharo is welcome" <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>
> Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Coding XPath as Smalltalk
>
>
> > 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 However, I am probably using a somewhat out of date version; I downloaded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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> >
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> >
> >
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