How can one get the Hpricot DOM document from Mechanize?

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I was wondering if there were some way of getting the Hpricot DOM (for
lack of a better term) from a Mechanize page. For example:

agent = WWW:Mechanize.new
page = agent.get(http://www.website.com)

I am currently doing this

doc = Hpricot(page.body)

I would like to do this

doc = page.get_hpricot_dom

The idea is that since Mechanize apparently uses Hpricot and it's

surely
using it to parse the HTML begotten from the agent.get method, it would
be
nice if I didn’t have to repeat that work.
Is there a way to get this Hpricot document? …or am I just totally
wrong about how Mechanize uses Hpricot?
Thank you…

2

perhaps it’s only me , but would you please detail what is it you want
to accomplish? maybe , with an example perhaps ?

3

Just Another Victim wrote:

I would like to do this

doc = page.get_hpricot_dom

Try page.parser or page.root (they’re eqivalent).

Regards,
Matthias

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On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 04:03:04AM +0900, Just Another Victim of the
Ambient M. wrote:

I would like to do this

doc = page.get_hpricot_dom

The idea is that since Mechanize apparently uses Hpricot and it's surely

using it to parse the HTML begotten from the agent.get method, it would be
nice if I didn’t have to repeat that work.
Is there a way to get this Hpricot document? …or am I just totally
wrong about how Mechanize uses Hpricot?

You can get at the Hpricot document by using the “parser” accessor on
WWW::Mechanize::Page. Page also responds to “search”, “/”, and “at”,
which just delegate to the Hpricot document.

So you can just do:

(agent.get(‘http://tenderlovemaking.com’)/‘tr’).each do |tr|
…
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