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How to create XPATH for a HTML DOM element? for example, "/HTML/BODY/DIV[1]/TABLE[1]/TR[2]/TD[1]/INPUT".
Given an DOM element how to get this XPATH string? Any ideas?
Thanks,
Dattebayo.
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The XPath DOM extends the document order of the DOM Core to include the XPathNamespace nodes. Element nodes occur before their children. The attribute nodes and namespace nodes of an element occur before the children of the element. The namespace nodes are defined to occur before the attribute nodes.
When you click an element in a web page, it's related code will be highlighted in the Firebug panel at the bottom of the window. Right-click this highlighted code. Select “Copy XPath” from the menu. This will copy the element's XPath information to your clipboard.
XPath stands for XML Path Language. It uses a non-XML syntax to provide a flexible way of addressing (pointing to) different parts of an XML document. It can also be used to test addressed nodes within a document to determine whether they match a pattern or not.
You can create a new domdocument and then import the node element
$DD= new DOMDocument('1.0', 'utf-8');
$DD->loadXML( "<html></html>" );
$DD->documentElement->appendChild($DD->importNode($DE,true));
then you can use xpath insithe the domelement:
$xpathe=new DOMXPath($DD);
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