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<div class="center_div">
<img src="/assets/isbiimages/c1504.jpg" alt="School Crest" width="190"></div>
Shelburne Road,
<br class="">Cheltenham,
<br class="">Gloucestershire,
<br class="">United Kingdom,
<br class="">GL51 6HE
<br class="">
<br class=""><strong>Tel:</strong> +44 1242 258000
<br class=""><strong>Fax:</strong> +44 1242 258004
<br class=""><br class=""><strong>Visit School Website</strong>
<br class="">
<br class=""><strong>Founded:</strong>1886<br class=""><br class=""><strong>Headmaster:</strong>
<br class="">Mr Bradley Salisbury
<br class=""><br class=""><strong>Registrar:</strong>
<br class="">Mrs Kelly Serjeant
<br class="">
<br class="">This school offers flexi-boarding.
<br class="">
<br class=""><strong>Accreditations and affiliations:</strong>
<br class="">ISBA, HMC, BSA, AGBIS
<br class=""><strong>Religious affiliation:</strong>
<br class="">Church of England<br class=""><strong>Teaching languages:</strong>
<br class="">English
<br class="">
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I am trying to grab certain fields based on their label, for example, I want to grab "Founded;" which would be 1886 in this example. And also "Registrar:" which would be Mrs Kelly Serjeant.
I am trying variations of this with no luck:
//strong[starts-with(., 'Registrar:')]//text()[not(parent::strong)]
Not quite sure what I am doing wrong.
Try :
//div[#class="school_row_cell_content"]//text()[.="Registrar:"]/following::text()[string-length()>0][1]
to get Mrs Kelly Serjeant.
Replace "Registrar:" to "Founded:" as
//div[#class="school_row_cell_content"]//text()[.="Founded:"]/following::text()[string-length()>0][1]
to get 1886
You can try with below xPath by just replacing the text in contains section
//*[contains(text(),'Founded')]/following-sibling::text()[string-length()>1][position()<2]
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<div class="school_row_cell_content">
<div class="center_div">
<img src="/assets/isbiimages/c1504.jpg" alt="School Crest" width="190"></div>
Shelburne Road,
<br class="">Cheltenham,
<br class="">Gloucestershire,
<br class="">United Kingdom,
<br class="">GL51 6HE
<br class="">
<br class=""><strong>Tel:</strong> +44 1242 258000
<br class=""><strong>Fax:</strong> +44 1242 258004
<br class=""><br class=""><strong>Visit School Website</strong>
<br class="">
<br class=""><strong>Founded:</strong>1886<br class=""><br class=""><strong>Headmaster:</strong>
<br class="">Mr Bradley Salisbury
<br class=""><br class=""><strong>Registrar:</strong>
<br class="">Mrs Kelly Serjeant
<br class="">
<br class="">This school offers flexi-boarding.
<br class="">
<br class=""><strong>Accreditations and affiliations:</strong>
<br class="">ISBA, HMC, BSA, AGBIS
<br class=""><strong>Religious affiliation:</strong>
<br class="">Church of England<br class=""><strong>Teaching languages:</strong>
<br class="">English
<br class="">
</div>
I want to grab each line of this information separately but as there are only br tags I am struggling to do this. Especially given the classes are empty. I am trying this type of thing:
//div[#class='school_row_cell_content']/#br
//div[#class='school_row_cell_content']/br[#class=''][1]
but don't seem to be getting anywhere.
The trick is to isolate a br node first, then get the preceding or following text node. So to get the text node containing "Shelburne Road":
//div[#class='school_row_cell_content']/br[1]/preceding-sibling::text()[1]
To get the text node containing "Cheltenham":
//div[#class='school_row_cell_content']/br[1]/following-sibling::text()[1]
To get the text node containing "Gloucestershire":
//div[#class='school_row_cell_content']/br[2]/following-sibling::text()[1]
I am working on a spring-mvc application. In the application, there are various types of events, for which the user can register. As for registration, there is a standard formula with details like firstName, email, address, etc. I am just giving different c:url values depending which event it is.
I was wondering if it is possible to include the form(not the c:url part) in another jsp file, and just call jsp:include. This would serve me very well as when the form needs to be styled, updated, etc, then I need to update only one file. I am including how the form looks. Kindly have a look. Thank
eventregistration.jsp :
<c:url var="addAction" value="/student/add/seminar-e-commerce" ></c:url>
<form:form class="seminar-form" action="${addAction}" commandName="students">
<table>
<form:hidden path="studentid"/>
<label>Firstname/LastName <span class="color-red">*</span></label>
<form:input path="firstname" type="text" class="span6 border-radius-none" />
<span> </span>
<form:input path="lastname" type="text" class="span6 border-radius-none pull-right" />
<label>Email-Address <span class="color-red">*</span></label>
<form:input path="emailadress" type="text" class="span12 border-radius-none" />
<label>Street Name/Number <span class="color-red">*</span></label>
<form:input path="address1" type="text" class="span10 border-radius-none" />
<span> </span>
<form:input path="address2" type="text" class="span2 border-radius-none pull-right" />
<label>City/PLZ <span class="color-red">*</span></label>
<form:input path="city" type="text" class="span10 border-radius-none" />
<span> </span>
<form:input path="plz" type="text" value="" class="span2 border-radius-none pull-right" />
<label>Handy Number <span class="color-red"></span></label>
<form:input path="handynumber" type="text" value="" class="span12 border-radius-none" />
<label path="newsletterpermission">Want to subscribe newsletter?</label>
<form:radiobutton path="newsletterpermission" class="form-control" value="true"/>Yes
<form:radiobutton style="margin-left:15px" path="newsletterpermission" class="form-control" value="false"/>No
<br/>
<br/>
<c:if test="${empty students.firstname}">
<input class="btn-u" type="submit"
value="<spring:message text="Register for event"/>" />
</c:if>
</table>
</form:form>
Any pointers would be nice. Thanks a lot.
You can achieve this with an entrypoint/method in your controller with a Pathvarible of action like below
#RequestMapping(value="/student/{action}", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String EntryPoint(#PathVaribale String action, ModelMap model) {
switch (action) {
case "add":
// delegate to addMethod
break;
case "activate":
// delegate to activateMethod
break;
case "register":
// delegate to registerMethod
break;
default:
///Unsurported operation
}
return "index";
}
and you can keep the c:url , remember to set up the model.action attribute on a controller method responsible for setting up the form bean, for your case students bean or make it more general
<c:url var="action" value="/student/model.action/" ></c:url>
<tr><td class=term>1st param</td>
<td>PUTIN
<div class='info-icon'>
<a href='#' onmouseover='show_pd(351);' onmouseout='hide_pd(351);' id='info-icon-351'></a>
</div>
<div id='pd-351' style='display: none; position: absolute;'>
<b>СПРАВКА</b>
<br /><br />
<P align=justify><NOBR><STRONG>ABS</STRONG></NOBR>bla-bla-bla text</P>
<P align=justify>bla-bla-bla text 2</P>
<P align=justify>bla-bla-bla text 3</P>
<P align=justify>bla-bla-bla text 4</P>
</div>
</td>
I need extract only "PUTIN".
Now I'm on
//td[#class="term"][contains(text(), "1st param")]/following-sibling::td/[not(self::p)]
With some adjustments to your XML following XPath
//td[#class="term"][contains(text(), "1st param")]/following-sibling::td/node()[1]
has the output PUTIN
Adjustments were to change <td class=term> into <td class="term"> and all <P align=justify> into <P align="justify"> (maybe not necessary for your settings but was required for the XPath evaluator I just used).
/*
Returning visitors login
<h2>
<label for="ctl00_Login2_UserName" id="ctl00_Login2_UserNameLabel">Email</label>
<br />
<input name="ctl00$Login2$UserName" type="text" value="pallavi#ensarm.com" maxlength="100" id="ctl00_Login2_UserName" class="formstyle2" style="width:150px;" />
<span id="ctl00_Login2_UserNameRequired" title="User Name is required." style="color:Red;visibility:hidden;">*</span>
<br />
<br />
<label for="ctl00_Login2_Password" id="ctl00_Login2_PasswordLabel">Password</label>
<br />
<input name="ctl00$Login2$Password" type="password" maxlength="100" id="ctl00_Login2_Password" class="formstyle2" style="width:150px;" />
<span id="ctl00_Login2_PasswordRequired" title="Password is required." style="color:Red;visibility:hidden;">*</span>
<a id="ctl00_Login2_ForgottenPasswordLink" href="ForgottenPassword.aspx">Forgotten password?</a>
</h2>
<h2 align="right">
<span id="ctl00_Login2_FailureText" style="color:Red;">Your login attempt was not successful. Please try again.</span>
<div class="button_right button_fixedwidth">
<a id="ctl00_Login2_ibnLogin" href="javascript:WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions(new WebForm_PostBackOptions("ctl00$Login2$ibnLogin", "", true, "Login2", "", false, true))">Login</a>
</div>
</h2>
</div>
*/
Above is my html pagesource i want xpath expression of span with id ctl00_Login2_FailureText. which is located inside div/h2
I have tried the fololowing xpath but its not working:
//span[#id='ctl00_Login2_FailureText' and contains(text(),'Your account has been temporarily locked because of a maximum number of incorrect login attempts.')]
Better try it:
(change "text()" with ".")
//div/h2/span[#id='ctl00_Login2_FailureText' and contains(.,'Your account has been temporarily locked because of a maximum number of incorrect login attempts.')]
Can I use Html Agility Pack to make the output look nicely indented, unnecessary white space stripped?
HAP is not going to give you the results you are after.
Try using a .net wrapper for HtmlTidy such as the one found here
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using Mark.Tidy;
namespace CleanupHtml
{
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/// http://markbeaton.com/SoftwareInfo.aspx?ID=81a0ecd0-c41c-48da-8a39-f10c8aa3f931
/// </summary>
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{
private static void Main(string[] args)
{
string html =
new WebClient().DownloadString(
"http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2593147/html-agility-pack-make-code-look-neat/2610903#2610903");
using (Document doc = new Document(html))
{
doc.ShowWarnings = false;
doc.Quiet = true;
doc.OutputXhtml = true;
doc.OutputXml = true;
doc.IndentBlockElements = AutoBool.Yes;
doc.IndentAttributes = false;
doc.IndentCdata = true;
doc.AddVerticalSpace = false;
doc.WrapAt = 120;
doc.CleanAndRepair();
string output = doc.Save();
Console.WriteLine(output);
File.WriteAllText("output.htm", output);
}
}
}
}
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what output? From where? some more details perhaps? – <a href=
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<i>(reference)</i> <a href="http://htmlagilitypack.codeplex.com/Wikipage" rel=
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output = html code output – <a href="/users/51795/illdev" title="53" class=
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A variation of this question has been answered recently
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Basically the outcome of this was that while you <strong>can</strong> use HtmlAgilityPack to
clean it up a bit by using the fix nested tags.
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The best solution is to use something called Tidy which is an application that was originally
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This article covers how to use it but you had to sign up (free) to view it:
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Which is the best HTML tidy pack? Is there any option in HTML agility pack to make HTML webpage tidy?
Basically the outcome of this was that while you can use HtmlAgilityPack to clean it up a bit by using the fix nested tags.
The best solution is to use something called Tidy which is an application that was originally created by some developers at w3c and then made open source. Its the engine that powers the w3c validator as well.
This article covers how to use it but you had to sign up (free) to view it:
http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/20505/1763/
It seems like a legit article but its funny because nobody else seems to have covered this topic in the last six years...
See a similar question here: HtmlAgilityPack: how to create indented HTML? and my answer:
No, and it's a "by design" choice.
There is a big difference between XML
(or XHTML, which is XML, not HTML)
where - most of the times -
whitespaces are no specific meaning,
and HTML.
This is not a so minor improvement, as
changing whitespaces can change the
way some browsers render a given HTML
chunk, especially malformed HTML (that
is in general well handled by the
library). And The Html Agility Pack
was designed to minimize the way the
HTML is rendered, not the way the
markup is written.
I'm not saying it's not feasible or
plain impossible. Obviously you can
convert to XML and voilà (and you
could write an extension method to
make this easier) but the rendered
output may be different, in the
general case.