getting all the input elements of a form tag
yawnmoth
am having some difficulty doing so. First, here's my XHTML:
<div>
<form action="">
<input type="text" name="a" />
</div>
<div>
<input type="text" name="b" />
</div>
<div>
<input type="submit" />
</form>
</div>
It isn't semantically correct XHTML but that doesn't stop web
developers from coding like that.
Anyway, in both Firefox and IE, if you visit a webpage containing the
above, and hit the Submit button, the resultant URL will have both a
and b defined via GET.
I'd like to be able to get a list of the same input parameters that
the browser does for a given form element. I had been using "//
form[1]//input" as an XPath query, but that doesn't work, here,
because not all of the inputs are children of the form element.
Any ideas?
Johannes Koch
> I'm trying to get a list of all the input elements of a form tag and
> am having some difficulty doing so. First, here's my XHTML:
>
> <div>
> <form action="">
> <input type="text" name="a" />
> </div>
> <div>
> <input type="text" name="b" />
> </div>
> <div>
> <input type="submit" />
> </form>
> </div>
>
> It isn't semantically correct XHTML
It's not well-formed, so it's not XML, so it's not XHTML.
> but that doesn't stop web
> developers from coding like that.
It's tag soup, but why do they call it XHTML?
> Anyway, in both Firefox and IE, if you visit a webpage containing the
> above, and hit the Submit button, the resultant URL will have both a
> and b defined via GET.
>
> I'd like to be able to get a list of the same input parameters that
> the browser does for a given form element. I had been using "//
> form[1]//input" as an XPath query, but that doesn't work, here,
> because not all of the inputs are children of the form element.
Your parser has to reorganize the crap markup in order to create the
DOM, which, I assume, you execute the XPath query on. So check the DOM
that your parser creates.
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Johannes Koch
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