What about an XPathEvaluator ? #172
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To connect #73 and #143 I can testify that it exists real-life use-cases for XPathEvaluators, such as reaching namespaced elements in an RSS file.
The .evaluate() function is provided on DOM nodes in Firefox :
https://developer.mozilla.org/fr/docs/Web/API/Document/evaluate
That would be great to have it here also.
Going through nearly one thousand website scrapping I identified some cases where XPath look mandatory to me :
- search in ancestors of a node
- going through a flat structure (with following-sibling)
- selecting a node from its content
- specifying the 2nd text child of a node
- and even getting some content out of HTML comments
The good news is that there is nothing worst behind XPath. I don't have use-cases for something fancier or weirder… after HTML and RSS we hardly encounter worse than JSON on the web, except for multipart/form-data content-types in some POST requests.