var vTableExp = "//a[contains(@href,'newdid')]/ancestor::td/ancestor::tr/ancestor::tbody";
var vTable = dom.find(vTableExp, XPFirst);
thanks
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A:
vTableExp is probably a regexp pattern and then it's being searched for.
Mikulas Dite
2010-05-09 18:30:07
It looks more like an XPath than a regular expression …
Konrad Rudolph
2010-05-09 18:30:40
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A:
It is an XPATH searching against the DOM, looking for wrapping <TBODY> elements which have a descendant <a> whose href contains "newdid".
Rex M
2010-05-09 18:30:28
It could be that the structure of the original HTML of the Travian app you are trying to do this for has changed.
Pekka
2010-05-09 18:31:48
@Rex yes, as additional info (added it here because yours is the correct answer). His complete issue is here: http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1087501
Pekka
2010-05-09 18:33:39
A:
It finds the first tbody which is an ancestor of a a tr element which is an ancestor of a td element which is an ancestor of an a element whose href contains the string newdid. (IOW, assuming that the parsed document is (X)HTML, select the body of the first table that has a cell containing a link whose address contains the string newdid.)
Oblomov
2010-05-09 18:37:55