3 author: //td/p[position()=last()]/em
5 # I swear, this is really the best way to do this
6 date: normalize(//td[contains(@style, "color: #ffffff")])
8 # my god, it's full of tables
9 body: /table/tbody/tr[5]//table/tbody//table/tbody/tr/td
12 # the following two lines strip the byline at the end of the article (the byline is a <p> that consists of an em dash and then some text in an <em>). I have no idea why I can't just strip //p[position()=last()], but trying to do so includes a bunch of other crap in the output.
13 strip: //p[position()=last()]/em
14 strip: //p[position()=last()]/child::text()
15 test_url: http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive_2011/today11-11-09_MuonDepartmentReadMore.html