scrapple/selectors/xpath.py
"""
scrapple.selectors.xpath
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"""
from __future__ import print_function
from scrapple.selectors.selector import Selector
from scrapple.utils.text import make_ascii
class XpathSelector(Selector):
"""
The ``XpathSelector`` object defines XPath expressions.
"""
__selector_type__ = 'XPath'
def __init__(self, url):
"""
The ``Selector`` class acts as the super class for this class.
"""
super(XpathSelector, self).__init__(url)
def get_tree_tag(self, selector='', get_one=False, *args, **kwargs):
tags = self.tree.xpath(selector)
if get_one:
return tags[0]
return tags