Hpricot XPath Search

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Before starting this section, you are encouraged to read Hpricot CSS Search. The CSS selectors are almost always easier to write and cleaner to combine. In addition, XPath support is pretty limited at present.

Using XPath Expressions

When calling the search or the slash / methods, you may use XPath expressions as the search string.

 doc = Hpricot(URI.parse("http://we-make-money-not-art.com/").read)
 (doc/'//div/img')
   #=> Elements[...]

For a complete list of expressions, see Supported XPath Expressions.

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