HtmlAgility and understand the nodes

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Hello everyone,

This is what I am dealing with regarding the path to the nodes and trying to decipher what needs to be done. The bottom paths is what I got from using Chrome, as you can see after every /li[?] the number is different. How can I get all the values under the product_list even thought the li value changes?

Also, what if multiple values are listed under each node and I want to get them all ie.

part#,
price,
description
location

XML

<h3>
<a href="http://www.somesite.com/shop.html" title="Some description of the product">Product description</a>
</h3>


//*[@id="product_list"]/li[1]/div[2]/h3/a
//*[@id="product_list"]/li[2]/div[2]/h3/a
//*[@id="product_list"]/li[3]/div[2]/h3/a
//*[@id="product_list"]/li[4]/div[2]/h3/a
//*[@id="product_list"]/li[5]/div[2]/h3/a

Appreciate any help....

Posted 13-May-15 8:56am

theadmin

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Richard Deeming · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-13T09:28:00

Solution 1

Try removing the numbers after the li:

xpath

//*[@id="product_list"]/li/div[2]/h3/a

The number in square brackets indicates that you want to select the matching element at the specified index. By removing that restriction, you will select all matching elements.

The selector is an XPath[^] expression.

Posted 13-May-15 9:28am

Richard Deeming

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theadmin 14-May-15 18:11pm

Thank you very much for that, I really need to brush up on this XPath stuff.