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How to parse web pages using XPath

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Date: 20th Apr 2011 Author: admin Categories: PHP 6

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parsing pages with XPath

How to parse web pages using XPath

Today I will tell you how you can make parsers of remote HTML pages (in PHP). In this article I will show you how to perform xpath queries to Web pages. XPath – a query language to elements of xml or xhtml document. To obtain the necessary data, we just need to create the necessary query. For the work, we also need: browser Mozilla Firefox, firebug and firepath plugins. For our experiment, I suggest this webpage Google Sci/Tech News. Of course you can choose any other web page too.
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