[Greasemonkey] Re: Mechanical Turk Script to Auto Accept

[Jeremy Dunck]

On 11/10/05, blakewest (sent by Nabble.com) <lists at nabble.com> wrote:
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> I wrote a script to do this same thing, but I don't understand the whole xpath thing, so I used document.getElementsByTagName('a') and then ran a RegExp against the collection.
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> My approach also works, but is xpath better for some reason?

XPath is to DOM traversal what SQL is to relational terversal. 
(Kinda. There's also XQuery...)  It's just a domain-specific language
so that you don't have to have complex DOM manipulation for something
you can accomplish in a single expression.

>Does anyone know a good tutorial on using xpath to locate elements?

I don't really know XPath; I've just learned enough to be dangerous.

This is the one I use:
http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XPathTutorial/General/examples.html

Aesthetically the pages suck, but they're very useful.

I've never used XPath in webdev before GM, mostly because it's not
well supported in other browsers.