On the page https://www.kpu.ca/calendar/2018-19/courses/jrnl/index.html, I'm trying to select the paragraph of course description that follows each course title. For example, "Students will explore how journalism fits in a media landscape..."
I can successfully highlight the appropriate elements in SG by clicking on this paragraph, then clicking on one of the "Prerequisites" elements to prevent them from being included. This results in the correct CSS selector h4+ p
However, when I translate this to an Xpath, I get //h4+//p which is not correct. I would expect this to translate to something like //h4/following::p[1], which gives the correct result.
We have been advising people to use SelectorGadget to write the expressions for the Xpath Extractor in Workbench (http://help.workbenchdata.com/steps/scrape/xpath-extractor) as a way to avoid learning the xpath syntax, so it's unfortunate that this case is mis-translated.
On the page https://www.kpu.ca/calendar/2018-19/courses/jrnl/index.html, I'm trying to select the paragraph of course description that follows each course title. For example, "Students will explore how journalism fits in a media landscape..."
I can successfully highlight the appropriate elements in SG by clicking on this paragraph, then clicking on one of the "Prerequisites" elements to prevent them from being included. This results in the correct CSS selector
h4+ pHowever, when I translate this to an Xpath, I get
//h4+//pwhich is not correct. I would expect this to translate to something like//h4/following::p[1], which gives the correct result.We have been advising people to use SelectorGadget to write the expressions for the Xpath Extractor in Workbench (http://help.workbenchdata.com/steps/scrape/xpath-extractor) as a way to avoid learning the xpath syntax, so it's unfortunate that this case is mis-translated.