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> Hi, I want to use xpath to scrape info from a website using pyXML but I
> keep getting no results.
>
> For example, in the following, I want to return the text "Element1" I
> can't get xpath to return anything at all. What's wrong with this
> code?
Your xpath expression is wrong.
> test = Evaluate('td', doc_node.documentElement)
Try one of the following alternatives, all of which should work.
test = Evaluate('//td', doc_node.documentElement)
test = Evaluate('/html/body/table/tr/td', doc_node.documentElement)
test = Evaluate('/html/body/table/tr/td[1]', doc_node.documentElement)
HTH,
Alan.
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