Description list tags <dl> IE funciton

[padinski]

Hi,

I have a list of address id's at work that need to be looked up in an external site. Once the site finds the address by the id, it returns a list of attributes against that id.

Here is a snippet of the source code, what I want to extract and copy to my excel spreadsheet is the "Service Class" within the <dd> tags. This is the 5th set of <dd> tags within all the HTML on the full page:

<div id="spinner"></div>
            <div id="search-result-outer" style="width: 100%">
                    <h2>Selected address</h2>
<fieldset class="section">
    <dl id="displayAddress">
        <dt>Address</dt>
        <dd>7 Fake Street, Faketown</dd>
    </dl>
    <dl id='locationId'>
        <dt>Location ID</dt>
        <dd>LOC00001234567</dd>
    </dl>
    <dl id='primary-access-technology'>
        <dt>Access technology</dt>
            <dd>Fibre</dd>
    </dl>
<dl>
    <dt>Service class</dt>
    <dd>2 - Serviceable by fibre. Drop in place, no NTD.    </dd>
</dl>

If I use:

$oDD = _IETagNameGetCollection($oIE, "dd", 4) ; Find the 5th DD tag
MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "dd", $oDD)

it returns "0" in the msg box, instead of "2 - Serviceable by fibre. Drop in place, no NTD"

The following gives me an object error.

$oDD = _IETagNameGetCollection($oIE, "dd", 4) ; Find the 5th DD tag
MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "dd", $oDD.innertext)

Am i approaching this the right way? Any advice assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[jdelaney]

Well, you can use my signature example...getting ie obj from xpath.

Yours would be like this:

$aMatches = BGe_IEGetDOMObjByXPathWithAttributes($oIE,"//fieldset[@class='section']/dl/dt[.='Service class']")
$oParent = $aMatches[0].ParentNode

$aMatches = BGe_IEGetDOMObjByXPathWithAttributes($oParent,"/dd")
$text = $aMatches[0].innertext

ConsoleWrite($text & @CRLF)

 

[padinski]

Thanks jdelaney, excuse my ignorance as I have not used any custom UDF's before. i just copied your script from the link in you signature and named it IEGetDOMObjByXPathWithAttributes.au3 and put it in my personal UDF folder. In my script I then added #include <IEGetDOMObjByXPathWithAttributes.au3> (hope that's correct process...)

When i use those lines of code you provided I get the following error:

$oParent = $aMatches[0].ParentNode
$oParent = $aMatches^ERROR

Error:Subscript used on non-accessible variable.

Sorry if that's a stupid question.

[jdelaney]

That means that no dom objects were found matching the pattern.  Was the page fully loaded when you called the function?

You can check that the return is an array (isarray), if not, then nothing was found.