This question might be a little specific but the test program im writing uses XPath to find the data i need in HTML. This piece of HTML(found here) is what im trying to parse.
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td class="textSm" align="right">1. </td> <!-- Location of the number is here -->
<td align="left" nowrap>
<a href="/stats/individual_stats_player.jsp?c_id=sf&playerID=467055" class="textSm">P Sandoval</a> <!-- Player location is here of the number is here -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
My goal is to find the name of the person by using the number that corresponds to him to find him. This requires me to find a node by the specific text contained in “td class="textSm" align="right">1. </td>” and then find the sibling of that node “<td align="left" nowrap>” then find the child of that sibling “<a href="/stats/individual_stats_player.jsp?c_id=sf&playerID=467055" class="textSm">P Sandoval</a>” to get the desired result. I was wondering what kind of query I could use to find this. Any help is very much appreciated.
Use:
This assumes that the context (current node) against which the XPath expression above is evaluated, is the parent of
table.