Questions tagged [xpath]
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xpath vs DOM API
I just came up on xpath recently while writing a greasemonkey script and immediately fell in love. I haven't done any benchmarking yet (coming soon), but according to a couple sources that I read, xpath is faster than using the DOM API. After…
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Is it possible to combine XPath and CSS selectors?
Just came through XPath.
I got curious about this. Why is there a different way to select tags in XPath and CSS(selectors).
Why cant there be a common way in both XPath and CSS?
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What approach to use to query multiple XML files?
I'll be receiving tens of thousands of XML files, which will continue to grow with new files over time. I need to be able to query these files as a whole (like SQL querying all the records in a database). What technologies and/or approaches should I…
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How would you have a fallback for html insert when the html has changed?
Given a website, our customers will pick a spot on their website and we record an xpath to that location.
Our software is DNS integrated, similar to cloudflare, and we manipulate the origin's html response based on the xpath the customer has…
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Identifying elements from data feeds generated by affiliate sites
I am working with data feeds from affiliate sites. The basic idea is to provide an interface where the user can paste a link to an XML datafeed (these are huge btw, around 60 mb) that would then be streamed, parsed into small chunks, and mined for…
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