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Stuart
Stuart

Reputation: 41

What I do select first/second or forth td content with XPath

<table class="attributes">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td class="label title"><b>scale</b></td>
            <td class="value">1/48</td>
            <td class="label title"><b>products</b></td>
            <td class="value">Plastic kits</td>
        </tr>
    <tbody>
</table>

Hit a brain block on this one...

Trying to capture specific values within the td's. So the first time around I'll grab the first, then the second and so on...

    //table[@class='attributes']/tbody/tr//descendant::td[@class='value']

Gives me all the td values how to select only the 2nd or 3rd.

I've tried:

    "//table[@class='attributes']/tbody/tr//descendant::td[@class='value']/td[2]"

With no success.

For example:

    $x("//*[@class='attributes']/tbody/tr/td[@class='value']")

finds me

    [<td class=​"value">​1/48​</td>​, <td class=​"value">​Plastic kits​</td>​, <td     class=​"value">​Limited edition​</td>​, <td class=​"value">​Aircraft​</td>​, <td class=​"value">​Eduard​</td>​, <td class=​"value">​0.5 kg​</td>​]

So then I changed the XPath to:

    $x("//*[@class='attributes']/tbody/tr/td[@class='value'][1]")

adding the [1] and what it does is returns

    [<td class=​"value">​1/48​</td>​, <td class=​"value">​Limited edition​</td>​, <td class=​"value">​Eduard​</td>​]

Upvotes: 2

Views: 15079

Answers (1)

kjhughes
kjhughes

Reputation: 111726

To select all of the class='value' td elements beneath the class='attributes' table:

/table[@class='attributes']//td[@class='value']

selects:

<td class="value">1/48</td>
<td class="value">Plastic kits</td>

To select just the second such td:

(/table[@class='attributes']//td[@class='value'])[2]

Upvotes: 4

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