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Asked: 2026-05-30T18:55:06+00:00

Using the XML library, I have parsed a web page basicInfo <- htmlParse(myURL, isURL

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Using the XML library, I have parsed a web page

basicInfo <- htmlParse(myURL, isURL = TRUE)

the relevant section of which is

<div class="col-left"><h1 class="tourney-name">Price Cutter Charity Championship Pres'd         by Dr Pep</h1><img class="tour-logo" alt="Nationwide Tour" src="http://a.espncdn.com/i/golf/leaderboard11/logo-nationwide-tour.png"/></div>

I can manage to extract the tournament name

tourney <- xpathSApply(basicInfo, "//*/div[@class='col-left']", xmlValue)

but also wish to know the tour it is from using the alt tag. In this case I want to get the result “Nationwide Tour”

TIA and apologies for scrolling required

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  1. Editorial Team

    Don’t know R but I’m pretty good with XPath

    Try this:

    tourney_name <- xpathSApply(basicInfo, "//*/div[@class='col-left']/h1/text()", xmlValue)
tourney_loc <- xpathSApply(basicInfo, "//*/div[@class='col-left']/img/@alt", xmlValue)

    Note the use of “@” to extract attributes and text() to extract text nodes (looks like R did this automatically), my revised tourney_name xpath should do the same thing, but it is more clear which part is being extracted.

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