Firebug “Copy XPath” 
June 6th, 2007
I have been playing around with the Ruby plugin Hpricot the last few days while I have been creating a news reading tool. It is pretty darn cool and hopefully I will get my project done this weekend.
However, the point of this post is Just a note for others using Firebug to get XPath expressions for use in Hpricot - don’t do it!!! Well ok, you can do it, but make sure you watch out for any
<tbody>
elements that Firebug sneaks in there that don’t exist … I spent _way_ too long figuring that one out.
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August 25th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Fantastic, removing the tbody elements worked for me!
Thanks for the hint
August 28th, 2007 at 1:53 am
I am glad that it was helpful Tero - now my hours of hair pulling have been vindicated!