Question

I have a simple ImportXml function in Google spreadsheet:

=ImportXml( "http://www.google.com/finance?q=0322.hk", "//span[@class='chr']" )

but it is giving me 2 cells of data, the cell direction underneath it is a =Continue(blah blah)… automatically placed by Google.

Here is the HTML code associated with this page. Looks like it has 2 items. I’ve replaced “<” & “>” with “(” & “)”

(span class="ch bld")(span class="chr" id="ref_673324_c")-0.45(/span)

(span class="chr" id="ref_673324_cp")(-2.02%)(/span)

How do I change my ImportXml function so that I’m only importing the “-0.45” without the “(-2.02%)?

Answer 1

I found a work around… I put =NOEXPAND function infront of it and it works. but if anybody has another solution let me know.