On Saturday, August 9, 2014 8:27:15 PM UTC-5, mikemi...@gmail.com wrote: > I need a tutorial or lesson on Xpath syntax from the ground up. I am totally > confused on how to assemble an Xpath. All the //a[wizardmojo]::stuffgoeshere > is confusing as hell, and all the information I find, only tells you very > basic examples, they don't really teach you assuming you know nothing. > > > > Thanks in advance, Mike
Yes, those examples are good, for about 5 minutes, but then how I do learn to do the more advanced stuff? Like find all the "a" tags and then extract the "href" out of each one? Or look in each "tr" and extract all the "hrefs" in "td 1" when "td 4" contains the text "5 star rating" I haven't found anything that teaches you to string together complex xpaths, just simple ones like //form[1]/input -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
