limitations of xpath to distinguish and locate web elements on page
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are there any alternatives to Xpath ? need to locate and extract specific element's texts for web scraping project.
xpath seem pretty limited against layout changes on web pages. slight shuffle, and xpath no longer works. also different browsers have different Xpaths as i discovered. Firefox automatically adds tbody after table, while IE doesn't and so on.
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