Does jsoup support xpath?

Question

There\'s some work in progress related to adding xpath support to jsoup https://github.com/jhy/jsoup/pull/80.

• Is it working?
• How can I use it?

Answer 1

JSoup doesn't support XPath yet, but you may try XSoup - "Jsoup with XPath".

Here's an example quoted from the projects Github site (link):

@Test
public void testSelect() {

    String html = "
github.com
" +
            "
a
b
";

    Document document = Jsoup.parse(html);

    String result = Xsoup.compile("//a/@href").evaluate(document).get();
    Assert.assertEquals("https://github.com", result);

    List list = Xsoup.compile("//tr/td/text()").evaluate(document).list();
    Assert.assertEquals("a", list.get(0));
    Assert.assertEquals("b", list.get(1));
}

There you'll also find a list of features and expressions of XPath that are supported by XSoup.