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Issue handling URL from XML

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#21 opened on Mar 14, 2015

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I've been digging on this for a while, but I'm pretty stumped right now.

<item>
    <title>Greece's Varoufakis says QE to fuel unsustainable equity rally</title>
    <link>http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/businessNews/~3/EaR-N8x3VzU/story01.htm</link>
    <description>CERNOBBIO, Italy (Reuters) - The European Central Bank's bond purchases will create an unsustainable stock market rally and are unlikely to boost euro zone investments...</description>
</item>

With .select(['item title']) I'm able to get all of the titles. With .select(['item description']) I'm able to get all of the descriptions. But with .select(['item link']) I only get an array of empty strings back. The number of empty strings equals the number of items in the page.

I'm going to keep digging in, but I think I already have keyboard marks on my forehead. =|

I've tried this using a $root with a link: 'link' attribute already, but same difference.

This is the specific URL I'm scraping: http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/businessNews?format=xml

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Research direction
Inspect the x ray library's selector logic for handling XML link elements. Trace how the select method processes the XML node tree and why 'item link' returns empty strings. Check if there's a namespace issue or incorrect parsing of child elements.
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