ImportXML & XPath

[tobject]

I was playing with Google spreadsheets _ImportXML function but they allow only 50 per sheet

is there a similar function for AutoIt? I checked Help - not much there

=importXML("URL";"query")

URL - the URL of the XML or HTML file

query - the XPath query to run on the data given at the URL. For example, "//a/@href" returns a list of the href attributes of all <a> tags in the document (i.e. all of the URLs the document links to). Each result from the XPath query is placed in its own row of the spreadsheet. For more information about XPath, please visit http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/

Example: =importXml("www.google.com"; "//a/@href"). This returns all of the href attributes (the link URLs) in all the <a> tags on www.google.com homepage

[PsaltyDS]

AutoIt is not a spreadsheet. It can be used with the automation interfaces provided by some spreadsheets. For example, the COM interface to MS Excel. So if the version of Excel you had installed supported that equation format, then AutoIt could use Excel to perform it.

Native to AutoIt, you could pull down the XML with InetGet, and use the _XMLDOMWrapper UDF to perform XPath queries on it (the UDF uses MSXML).

Edited April 26, 2010 by PsaltyDS

[tobject]

Ok I tested XPath in Google - it retrieves data just fine

Now in AutoIt I get 0 nodes back

Any idea why?

$xmlDoc=ObjCreate("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
    if IsObj($xmlDoc) Then
       MsgBox(0,"sdsdsd","Success");
   endif;

    $xmlDoc.async=false;
    $xmlDoc.load("Profile616.htm");
    $xmlDoc.setProperty("SelectionLanguage", "XPath");
    $XPath="//td//td[(((count(preceding-sibling::*) + 1) = 1) and parent::*)]//tr[(((count(preceding-sibling::*) + 1) = 1) and parent::*)]//tr//td";

     $xmlNodeList = $xmlDoc.selectNodes($XPath);

MsgBox(0,"sdsdsd",$xmlNodeList.Length);


    For $xmlNode in $xmlNodeList
        MsgBox(0,"sdsdsd",$xmlNode.Text);
    Next