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I am a newbie of scrapy, when I want to write a spider by myself, I tried to crawl the text from http://www.zvon.org/comp/r/tut-XPath_1.html, includeing the description text and the right bar text, in order to make the next page url, I have spend 5 hours,but I am failed to write the right CSS or Xpath,such as the xpath of
<div class="right_menu_body_item">List of XPaths</div>
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<div class="description">XPath is described in <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath" target="_blank" id="cglh" title="XPath 1.0 standard">XPath 1.0 standard</a>.
anyone can help? thanks!
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**<div class="right_menu_body_item">List of XPaths</div>**
<div class="right_menu_body_item">XPath as filesystem addressing</div>
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