Portia uses https://github.com/scrapy/scrapely https://github.com/scrapy/scrapely library for data extraction. It doesn't use XPaths for learning. There are som

Portia uses https://github.com/scrapy/scrapely https://github.com/scrapy/scrapely library for data extraction. It doesn't use XPaths for learning. There are some links to papers in scrapely README; scrapely is largely based on ideas from these papers, but there are many improvements. In short - yes, this is taken care of.