Comments on: WikiPath http://mjtsai.com/blog/2007/04/03/wikipath/ Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:12:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jonathan Wight http://mjtsai.com/blog/2007/04/03/wikipath/#comment-63425 Jonathan Wight Thu, 05 Apr 2007 03:44:54 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/2007/04/03/wikipath/#comment-63425 WebKit doesn't give you the chance to perform an xpath on the DOM. He could have loaded the page seperately into NSXMLDocument and then used xpath but that's a) more work and b) wouldn't work so well on dynamic pages where content is created by JS. Ben's solution was very slick and one of the reasons why I chose him as the winner. WebKit doesn't give you the chance to perform an xpath on the DOM. He could have loaded the page seperately into NSXMLDocument and then used xpath but that's a) more work and b) wouldn't work so well on dynamic pages where content is created by JS.

Ben's solution was very slick and one of the reasons why I chose him as the winner.

]]> By: Ben http://mjtsai.com/blog/2007/04/03/wikipath/#comment-63377 Ben Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:36:11 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/2007/04/03/wikipath/#comment-63377 Sorry, I forgot to mention this is a different Ben, not the Gottlieb one. Sorry, I forgot to mention this is a different Ben, not the Gottlieb one.

]]> By: Ben http://mjtsai.com/blog/2007/04/03/wikipath/#comment-63376 Ben Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:34:22 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/2007/04/03/wikipath/#comment-63376 While xpath would be a lot easier, unfortunately I don't think WebKit has very good xpath support, if any. While xpath would be a lot easier, unfortunately I don't think WebKit has very good xpath support, if any.

]]> By: Grayson http://mjtsai.com/blog/2007/04/03/wikipath/#comment-63342 Grayson Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:56:48 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/2007/04/03/wikipath/#comment-63342 Wouldn't it be about as easy and less overhead to use XPATH? Something like ".//a" (it's been a while, so please correct me) should catch all of the links, no? Wouldn't it be about as easy and less overhead to use XPATH? Something like ".//a" (it's been a while, so please correct me) should catch all of the links, no?

]]> By: Kelan Champagne http://mjtsai.com/blog/2007/04/03/wikipath/#comment-62979 Kelan Champagne Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:44:16 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/2007/04/03/wikipath/#comment-62979 I thought his use of javascript to get the links was quite clever. I used a much more tedious traversal of the DOM with DOMNode * in my ironcoder entry, WikiWalker (which was a similar idea, but not as well done -- although, I did figure out why mine was crashing so much, and plan on fixing it). I found the example of the DOMNode-walking on cocoadev.com, but only in the google cache (or rolling the page back to its original version). Congrats again to Ben. I thought his use of javascript to get the links was quite clever. I used a much more tedious traversal of the DOM with DOMNode * in my ironcoder entry, WikiWalker (which was a similar idea, but not as well done -- although, I did figure out why mine was crashing so much, and plan on fixing it). I found the example of the DOMNode-walking on cocoadev.com, but only in the google cache (or rolling the page back to its original version).

Congrats again to Ben.

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