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Is there a way to convert an element link to XPath

I have written a Jsoup class file to scrape a page and grab the hrefs for every element on the page. What I would like to do from there is to extract the Xpath for each of the elements from their hrefs.

Is there a way to do this in JSoup? If not is what is the best way to do this in Java (and are there any resources on this)?

Update

I want to clarify my question.

I want to scan a page for all the href identifiers and grab the links (that part is done). For my script, I need to get the xpath of all the elements I have identified and scraped from the (scanned) page.

The problem is that I assumed I could easily translate the href links to Xpath.

Solution

  • The comment from @Rishal dev Singh ended up being the right answer. Check his link here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7085539/does-jsoup-support-xpath