XPath exercises

In this part, we are going to focus on hands-on exercises about XPath rules. We will start with matching some XML nodes and attributes on Packt's website. We will use the Google Chrome Developers Tool. 

Let's get started:

  1. Navigate to Packt's web site and open Google Chrome's Developers Tool.
  2. When you open this tool, you will see the following screen:

Google Chrome Developer tools
  1. To write XPath rules, the console should be used, and the XPath rules should be written as shown: $x('//*[@id="menu-books"]') .
  2. If we run this XPath rule, we will get the results shown in the following screenshot:
Elements listed related to the ...

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