I have a malformed page to scrape, and have had a hard time getting the correct XPath for YQL. I can scrape individual fields that I need using, for example:
//*[@id="cell_12345"]
But what I really need to do is return all elements who's ID begins with cell_. Something like:
//*[@id="cell_"*]
How do I do this?
Also, if anybody can point me to a good XPath reference it would be very helpful.
Thanks!
Answer
Something like
//*[starts-with(@id, 'ceil_')]
should do nicely.
As for an xpath reference, once you know the syntax and the axis, just any old function reference should help. This was the first one google: http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_functions.asp