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Nokogiri: Searching for <div> using XPath.

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Mike Dalessio (one half of the Nokogiri core developers) gave me an answer on #nokogiri (irc.freenode.net). Looks like neither Nokogiri CSS nor XPath search do support regex matching. This is his solution on how to search for regular expressions with Nokogiri:

require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'

value = Nokogiri::HTML.parse(<<-HTML_END)
  "<html>
    <body>
      <p id='para-1'>A</p>
      <p id='para-22'>B</p>
      <h1>Bla</h1>
      <p id='para-3'>C</p>
      <p id='para-4'>D</p>
      <div class="foo" id="eq-1_bl-1">
        <p id='para-5'>3</p>
      </div>
      <div class="bar" id="eq-1_bl-1">
        <p id='para-5'>3</p>
      </div>
    </body>
  </html>"
HTML_END

# my_block is given
my_bl = "1"
# my_eq corresponds to this regex
my_eq = "[0-9]+"
# full regex to search for in node ids
full_regex = %r(eq-#{my_eq}_bl-#{my_bl})

filter_by_id = Class.new do
  attr_accessor :matches

  def initialize(regex)
    @regex = regex
    @matches = []
  end

  def filter(node_set)
    @matches += node_set.find_all { |x| x['id'] =~ @regex }
  end
end.new(full_regex)

value.css("div.foo:filter()", filter_by_id)
filter_by_id.matches.each do |node|
  puts node
end

Javier 2009-03-16 13:31:42

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