cssToXpath: Translate a css path to an xpath.

In cuche27/CSS: Extract information from an html document with CSS selectors

Description

this function translates a CSS path in an xpath query. It is used by cssApply and you generally won't have to use it directly. Nevertheless, it may be useful for debug if cssApply does unexpected things.

Usage

cssToXpath(cssPath, prefix = "//")

Arguments

cssPath	Character. A CSS path
prefix	Character string appended at the beggining of the xpath query. Valid options are "/", "//", "./" and ".//"

Value

A character string representing an xpath query.

Examples

cssToXpath(".character>.name")
cssToXpath("#character1 .name")

cuche27/CSS documentation built on Oct. 20, 2019, 1:09 a.m.