I'm messing around with lxml in Python, but can't seem to figure out how to use the cssselect() function to get all div's with the class reddit-entry, as it seems to dislike the - character. Any other class name without - works fine.
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Martijn Pieters
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Umm... not sure about that - does `obj.xpath('//div[@class="reddit-entry"]')` work? – Jon Clements Jun 23 '12 at 13:49
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That’s a bug in the parser in lxml.cssselect. I took over maintenance of the project and extracted it from lxml. The bug is fixed in the new cssselect: http://packages.python.org/cssselect/
lxml 2.4 will use the new cssselect, but until then the way to use it is:
from cssselect import HTMLTranslator
result = lxml_document.xpath(HTMLTranslator().css_to_xpath('div.reddit-entry'))
Simon Sapin
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If you run the code that cssselector uses via xpath it does work...
obj.xpath("//div[contains(concat(' ', normalize-space(@class), ' '), ' reddit-entry ')]")
Jon Clements
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