On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 10:45 PM, PBKResearch <peter@pbkresearch.co.uk> wrote:

Siemen

Stef should have added that XPath depends on using Monty's XMLParser suite. I tried your snippet on XMLDOMParser, and it parses correctly. I always use XMLHTMLParser for parsing HTML, because I can always see the exact relationship between the parsed structure and the original HTML. With Soup I often found the match difficult or even impossible.

Thanks Stef & Peter. I'm going with XMLHTMLParser, it is indeed nicer to work with in the inspector. I'm scraping my own html files (to create a mock DOM object of my HTML to work with in Pharo) so I think I will switch to xhtml too to reduce the complexity.

Nice chapter, I only saw it briefly before and didn't realize that XMLHTMLParser is a newer replacement for Soup.

-- Siemen