Question

have this webpage http://www.westminster.ac.uk/schools/computing/undergraduate . I’m using hpple to retrieve data (just started learning about it). I want to specifically retrieve the href from he main page, how can i do this?

I have this line – “NSArray *elements = [xpathParser search:@”//a”];” is able to retrieve all of the href links within the page however how can i retrieve just the ones in the main content? e.g. “BSc Honors Busniess Information Systems”? whats the syntax for it?

Answer 1

It looks like all of the “main content” stuff is found underneath elements with id attributes like “content_div_XXXX” where XXXX is some randomly generated sequence. You might be able to get at what you want using an XPath that looks something like:

//div[starts-with(@id,'content_div')]//a

You should be able to get something like this working, although you’d have to try it out and perhaps tweak it a bit to make it work precisely as you want. Refer to W3Schools XPath page for a good set of XPath tutorials