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Identifying elements from data feeds generated by affiliate sites

I am working with data feeds from affiliate sites. The basic idea is to provide an interface where the user can paste a link to an XML datafeed (these are huge btw, around 60 mb) that would then be streamed, parsed into small chunks, and mined for the required data which would then be stored in the database.

Clarification about how ‘Relative XPath’ actually work?

I’ve read a lot of documents related to Absolute Xpath and Relative XPath, but I still have no idea how Relative XPath works, for Absolute Path, an element can be found from the root based on the desired path, how about Relative XPath?

How to Select xpath for an iframe

I am trying to scrape data from a page but I am not able to scrape the iframe, however title, paragraph and all other elements get scraped, but I just want the first paragraph and an iframe below that scraped.