Introducing the Backtrack-xpath gem

If you need to find the Xpath to the current node in an XML document, try the Backtrack-xpath gem.

Example:

require 'backtrack-xpath'

xml =<<XML
<root>
  <a>
    <summary><n/><x1/><x2/></summary>
    <records>
      <b>
        <summary><y color='blue'/><y2/></summary>
        <records>
          <c><summary><n/></summary><records/></c>
        </records>
      </b>
      <b>
        <summary><y color='red'/><y2/></summary>
        <records>
          <c><summary><n/></summary><records/></c>
        </records>
      </b>

    </records>
  </a>
</root>  
XML

doc = Rexle.new xml
node = doc.root.element '//y'
puts BacktrackXPath.new(node).to_xpath #=> root/a/records/b/summary/y

Note: An id or class attribute will be used in the XPath to help identify the element if they exist in any of the elements.

gem backtrackxpath xpath html