XPath not finding <br>

[acrymble]

I am trying to split the following HTML content into an array that will look like this:

0 => Gladman (family)
1 => Gladman, George, 1765-1821
2 => Gladman, George, 1800-1863
3 => Gladman, Henry, 1834-1912


<TABLE CLASS="results">
<TR><TH>Creator:</TH><TD CLASS="data">Gladman (family)<br>Gladman, George, 1765-1821<br>Gladman, George, 1800-1863<br>Gladman, Henry, 1834-1912</TD></TR>

I have tried:

xPath1 = doc.evaluate(//table[@class="results"]/tbody/tr/td', doc, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent.split(/\n/));

This returns the correct content, but does not split it at all. The result is an array with 1 item.

I also tried the regExp (/\r/) to no avail.

I think that the xPath is not recognizing the <br> tags. Is there a way to split this?

Thanks

Adam

[Declan1991]

Can you not just, no?
xPath1 = doc.evaluate(//table[@class="results"]/tbody/tr/td', doc, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent.split(/\<br\>/));
And can I ask why you are using XPath with something that is neither XML or XHTML (i.e. <br> instead of <br />)?

[acrymble]

Declan1991, (/\<br\>/) didn't work. it returned the same thing as (/\n/).

I am using xPath because it is the only way I can figure out how to scrape the content off the page. It's not my webpage that the content is on, so I'm stuck with the formatting they have used.

[Declan1991]

It is a HTML page right? Then why not:
var ts = document.getElementsByTagName("table"), l = ts.length, ar = [];
while ((i--)) {
if (ts[i].className&&ts[i].className.match("results")) {
ar[ar.length] = ts[i].getElementsByTagName("td")[0].split(/\<br\>/);
}
}
alert(ar[0][0]);