I have a html doc similar to following:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<div id="Symbols" class="cb">
<table class="quotes">
<tr><th>Code</th><th>Name</th>
<th style="text-align:right;">High</th>
<th style="text-align:right;">Low</th>
</tr>
<tr class="ro" onclick="location.href='/xyz.com/A.htm';" style="color:red;">
<td><a href="/xyz.com/A.htm" title="Display,A">A</a></td>
<td>A Inc.</td>
<td align="right">45.44</td>
<td align="right">44.26</td>
<tr class="re" onclick="location.href='/xyz.com/B.htm';" style="color:red;">
<td><a href="/xyz.com/B.htm" title="Display,B">B</a></td>
<td>B Inc.</td>
<td align="right">18.29</td>
<td align="right">17.92</td>
</div></html>
I need to extract code/name/high/low information from the table.
I used following code from one of the similar examples in Stack Over Flow:
#############################
import urllib2
from lxml import html, etree
webpg = urllib2.urlopen(http://www.eoddata.com/stocklist/NYSE/A.htm).read()
table = html.fromstring(webpg)
for row in table.xpath('//table[@class="quotes"]/tbody/tr'):
for column in row.xpath('./th[position()>0]/text() | ./td[position()=1]/a/text() | ./td[position()>1]/text()'):
print column.strip(),
print
#############################
I am getting nothing output. I have to change the first loop xpath to table.xpath('//tr') from table.xpath('//table[@class="quotes"]/tbody/tr')
I just don't understand why the xpath('//table[@class="quotes"]/tbody/tr') not work.
