Convert xPath to JSoup query

Question

Does anyone know of an xPath to JSoup convertor? I get the following xPath from Chrome:

 //*[@id=\"docs\"]/div[1]/h4/a

and would like to c

Answer 1

You don't necessarily need to convert Xpath to JSoup specific selectors.

Instead you can use XSoup which is based on JSoup and supports Xpath.

https://github.com/code4craft/xsoup

Here is an example using XSoup from the docs.

@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));
}