Need help converting html code into XpathQueryString

Question

I was following raywenderlich's tutorial on how to parse html into xcode and it works when it comes down to his website.However, the only problem now is I seem to not grasp the concept of Xpathquery.All I want is the table data.This is the html code below.

<div>
 <table class="detail-view" id="yw0"><tr class="odd"><th>ID</th><td>kick</td></tr>

I thought the code below would work, but it didn't. Any help will be appreciated

 NSString *tutorialsXpathQueryString = @"//table[@class='detail-view']/td";

Answer 1

I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to extract from the table; but I'm going to infer that it's the element <td>kick</td> . In that case, using the following source:

<table class="detail-view" id="yw0"><tr class="odd"><th>ID</th><td>kick</td></tr></table>

and an XPath query string of:

//table[@class='detail-view']/tr/td

I get a result of:

Element='<td>kick</td>'

Perhaps you could use this tool to tune your queries.