I m curious if this is possible at all since a "select * from html" query only returns the body of the document.
Finally found the answer. (EDIT : thanks to Salathe on the YQL forums!)
select * from html where url="http://stackoverflow.com" and xpath= /html/head/title
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I m curious if this is possible at all since a "select * from html" query only returns the body of the document.
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