Question

When I look up an xpath with

b.xpath("td[@class='team']/img").each do |d|
  puts d['id']
end

The element “d” is a html node. I can reference attributes in it.

But when I attempt to look up the same element in one line, it gets returned as a string.

c = b.xpath("td[@class='team']/img")[0]

There is only one element I in the array, I don’t need to loop through anything .each. Is there a way to make this one line?

Answer 1

I ended up doing something like this:

t = a.xpath("tr/td[@class='team']/img")
away = t[0]['id']
home = t[1]['id']