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Thanks for pointing this out. I forgot to precise that I am using XPath on Unix/Cygwin command line or in Shell scripts. Here an example of extracting the Hacke

by reirob 15y ago

Thanks for pointing this out. I forgot to precise that I am using XPath on Unix/Cygwin command line or in Shell scripts. Here an example of extracting the Hacker News title;url;points;user data: curl -s http://news.ycombinator.com/news | tidy -quiet -asxml -numeric -utf8 -file /dev/null | xmlstarlet sel -N x=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml -t -m "//x:tr[x:td[1][@class='title']]" -v "normalize-space(x:td[3][@class='title']/x:a)" -o ";" -v "x:td[3][@class='title']/x:a/@href" -o ";" -v "str:tokenize(following-sibling::x:tr[1]/x:td[2]/x:span[1], ' ')[1]" -o ";" -v "following-sibling::x:tr[1]/x:td[2]/x:a[1]" -n | xmlstarlet unesc

sukuriant 15y ago
Could you put some newlines in that? For some reason, my browser (IE9) is rendering that construct as a VERY long line and extending the page to match it. (no code-specific scroll-bar for me)
- reirob 15y ago
  curl -s http://news.ycombinator.com/news | \ tidy -quiet -asxml -numeric -utf8 -file /dev/null | \ xmlstarlet sel \ -N x=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml \ -t -m "//x:tr[x:td[1][@class='title']]" \ -v "normalize-space(x:td[3][@class='title']/x:a)" -o ";" \ -v "x:td[3][@class='title']/x:a/@href" -o ";" \ -v "str:tokenize(following-sibling::x:tr[1]/x:td[2]/x:span[1], ' ')[1]" -o ";" \ -v "following-sibling::x:tr[1]/x:td[2]/x:a[1]" -n | \ xmlstarlet unesc
  - sukuriant 15y ago
    Thank you.