[Gambas-user] XmlElement.GetChildrenByFilter misbehaving ?

Sat Feb 23 21:41:32 CET 2019

XmlElement.GetChildrenByFilter() does not seem to correctly match CSS selectors and sometimes allows partial matches on an 
attribute value.

Given the following HTML ("test.html"):
<html>
<body>
<div class="userrow"> <!-- If this div is removed; or if "user" is not in the class name, the code works as expected. -->
     <div class="user">
         <a href="https://homedomain.dom/hottlipps"></a>
     </div>
     <div class="userspacer"></div>
     <div class="user">
         <a href="https://homedomain.dom/jimjohnson"></a>
     </div>
     <div class="userspacer"></div>
     <div class="user">
         <a href="https://homedomain.dom/jackstone"></a>
     </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

And the following code:
' Gambas module file

Public Sub Main()

   Dim HtmlContent As New HtmlDocument
   Dim Users As XmlElement[]

   HtmlContent.HtmlFromString(File.Load(Application.Path &/ "test.html"))
   Users = HtmlContent.Body.GetChildrenByFilter(".user > a") ' Gets div tags also; instead of just anchor tags.
   For Each MyElement As XmlElement In Users
     Print MyElement.tagname, MyElement.classname
   Next

End

I get:
div     user
a
div     userspacer
div     user
a
div     userspacer
div     user
a

Is this one or more bugs, a misunderstanding on my part, or a combination of both?

Project attached.

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Lee

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