diff --git a/docs/intro/tutorial.rst b/docs/intro/tutorial.rst
index 4b362f84d..bf52186cd 100644
--- a/docs/intro/tutorial.rst
+++ b/docs/intro/tutorial.rst
@@ -192,9 +192,9 @@ These are just a couple of simple examples of what you can do with XPath, but
 XPath expression are indeed much more powerful. To learn more about XPath we
 recommend `this XPath tutorial <http://www.w3schools.com/XPath/default.asp>`_.
 
-For working with XPaths, Scrapy provides a :class:`~scrapy.xpath.XPathSelector`
-class, which comes in two flavours, :class:`~scrapy.xpath.HtmlXPatSelector`
-(for HTML data) and :class:`~scrapy.xpath.XmlXPathSelector` (for XML data). In
+For working with XPaths, Scrapy provides a :class:`~scrapy.selector.XPathSelector`
+class, which comes in two flavours, :class:`~scrapy.selector.HtmlXPatSelector`
+(for HTML data) and :class:`~scrapy.selector.XmlXPathSelector` (for XML data). In
 order to use them you must instantiate the desired class with a
 :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` object.
 
@@ -205,14 +205,14 @@ node, or the entire document.
 Selectors have three methods (click on the method to see the complete API
 documentation).
 
-* :meth:`~scrapy.xpath.XPathSelector.x`: returns a list of selectors, each of
+* :meth:`~scrapy.selector.XPathSelector.x`: returns a list of selectors, each of
   them representing the nodes selected by the xpath expression given as
   argument. 
 
-* :meth:`~scrapy.xpath.XPathSelector.extract`: returns a unicode string with
+* :meth:`~scrapy.selector.XPathSelector.extract`: returns a unicode string with
    the data selected by the XPath selector.
 
-* :meth:`~scrapy.xpath.XPathSelector.re`: returns a list unicode strings
+* :meth:`~scrapy.selector.XPathSelector.re`: returns a list unicode strings
   extracted by applying the regular expression given as argument.
 
 
@@ -235,10 +235,10 @@ This is what the shell looks like::
 
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Available Scrapy variables:
-      xxs: <class 'scrapy.xpath.selector.XmlXPathSelector'>
+      xxs: <class 'scrapy.selector.XmlXPathSelector'>
       url: http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Python/Books/
       spider: <class 'dmoz.spiders.dmoz.OpenDirectorySpider'>
-      hxs: <class 'scrapy.xpath.selector.HtmlXPathSelector'>
+      hxs: <class 'scrapy.selector.HtmlXPathSelector'>
       item: <class 'scrapy.item.Item'>
       response: <class 'scrapy.http.response.html.HtmlResponse'>
    Available commands:
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ that property here, so::
 Let's add this code to our spider::
 
    from scrapy.spider import BaseSpider
-   from scrapy.xpath.selector import HtmlXPathSelector
+   from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector
 
    class DmozSpider(BaseSpider):
       domain_name = "dmoz.org"
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ Spiders are expected to return their scraped data inside
 scraped so far, the code for our Spider should be like this::
 
    from scrapy.spider import BaseSpider
-   from scrapy.xpath.selector import HtmlXPathSelector
+   from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector
 
    from dmoz.items import DmozItem
 
diff --git a/docs/topics/loaders.rst b/docs/topics/loaders.rst
index 8fd1f1c89..bfaa29c32 100644
--- a/docs/topics/loaders.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/loaders.rst
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ ItemLoader objects
 
     :param selector: The selector to extract data from, when using the
         :meth:`add_xpath` or :meth:`replace_xpath` method.
-    :type selector: :class:`~scrapy.xpath.XPathSelector` object
+    :type selector: :class:`~scrapy.selector.XPathSelector` object
 
     :param response: The response used to construct the selector using the
         :attr:`default_selector_class`, unless the selector argument is given,
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ ItemLoader objects
         value, which is used to extract a list of unicode strings from the
         selector associated with this :class:`XPathItemLoader`. If the ``re``
         argument is given, it's used for extrating data from the selector using
-        the :meth:`~scrapy.xpath.XPathSelector.re` method.
+        the :meth:`~scrapy.selector.XPathSelector.re` method.
 
         :param xpath: the XPath to extract data from
         :type xpath: str
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ ItemLoader objects
 
     .. attribute:: selector
 
-        The :class:`~scrapy.xpath.XPathSelector` object to extract data from.
+        The :class:`~scrapy.selector.XPathSelector` object to extract data from.
         It's either the selector given in the constructor or one created from
         the response given in the constructor using the
         :attr:`default_selector_class`. This attribute is meant to be
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ Here is a list of all built-in processors:
     work with single values (instead of iterables). For this reason the
     :class:`MapCompose` processor is typically used as input processor, since
     data is often extracted using the
-    :meth:`~scrapy.xpath.XPathSelector.extract` method of :ref:`selectors
+    :meth:`~scrapy.selector.XPathSelector.extract` method of :ref:`selectors
     <topics-selectors>`, which returns a list of unicode strings.
 
     The example below should clarify how it works::
diff --git a/docs/topics/selectors.rst b/docs/topics/selectors.rst
index cc6e01b6f..29b46f573 100644
--- a/docs/topics/selectors.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/selectors.rst
@@ -49,9 +49,9 @@ Constructing selectors
 
 There are two types of selectors bundled with Scrapy. Those are:
 
- * :class:`~scrapy.xpath.HtmlXPathSelector` - for working with HTML documents
+ * :class:`~scrapy.selector.HtmlXPathSelector` - for working with HTML documents
 
- * :class:`~scrapy.xpath.XmlXPathSelector` - for working with XML documents
+ * :class:`~scrapy.selector.XmlXPathSelector` - for working with XML documents
 
 .. highlight:: python
 
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Then, after the shell loads, you'll have some selectors already instanced and
 ready to use.
 
 Since we're dealing with HTML we'll be using the
-:class:`~scrapy.xpath.HtmlXPathSelector` object which is found, by default, in
+:class:`~scrapy.selector.HtmlXPathSelector` object which is found, by default, in
 the ``hxs`` shell variable.
 
 .. highlight:: python
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ Using selectors with regular expressions
 
 Selectors also have a ``re()`` method for extracting data using regular
 expressions. However, unlike using the ``select()`` method, the ``re()`` method
-does not return a list of :class:`~scrapy.xpath.XPathSelector` objects, so you
+does not return a list of :class:`~scrapy.selector.XPathSelector` objects, so you
 can't construct nested ``.re()`` calls. 
 
 Here's an example used to extract images names from the :ref:`HTML code
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ XPath specification.
 Built-in XPath Selectors reference
 ==================================
 
-.. module:: scrapy.xpath
+.. module:: scrapy.selector
    :synopsis: XPath selectors classes
 
 There are two types of selectors bundled with Scrapy:
diff --git a/docs/topics/shell.rst b/docs/topics/shell.rst
index 5badbcd8b..3dea2bbe0 100644
--- a/docs/topics/shell.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/shell.rst
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Custom Shell Objects
 
 The console automatically creates some useful Scrapy objects for the downloaded
 page, like the :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` object and the
-:class:`~scrapy.xpath.XPathSelector` objects (for both HTML and XML content).
+:class:`~scrapy.selector.XPathSelector` objects (for both HTML and XML content).
 
 Those objects are:
 
@@ -83,10 +83,10 @@ Those objects are:
  * ``response`` - a :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` object of the last fetched
    page
 
- * ``hxs`` - a :class:`~scrapy.xpath.HtmlXPathSelector` object for the Response
+ * ``hxs`` - a :class:`~scrapy.selector.HtmlXPathSelector` object for the Response
    of the downloaded page
 
- * ``xxs`` - a :class:`~scrapy.xpath.XmlXPathSelector` object for the Response
+ * ``xxs`` - a :class:`~scrapy.selector.XmlXPathSelector` object for the Response
    of the downloaded page
 
  * ``get <url>``- download a new response from the given URL and update all
diff --git a/docs/topics/spiders.rst b/docs/topics/spiders.rst
index b8b8ab8c8..d8fa39f6d 100644
--- a/docs/topics/spiders.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/spiders.rst
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ Let's now take a look at an example CrawlSpider with rules::
 
     from scrapy.contrib.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule
     from scrapy.contrib.linkextractors.sgml import SgmlLinkExtractor
-    from scrapy.xpath.selector import HtmlXPathSelector
+    from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector
     from scrapy.item import Item
 
     class MySpider(CrawlSpider):
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ XMLFeedSpider
         available in that document that will be processed with this spider. The
         ``prefix`` and ``uri`` will be used to automatically register
         namespaces using the
-        :meth:`~scrapy.xpath.XPathSelector.register_namespace` method.
+        :meth:`~scrapy.selector.XPathSelector.register_namespace` method.
 
         You can then specify nodes with namespaces in the :attr:`itertag`
         attribute.
diff --git a/scrapy/command/commands/shell.py b/scrapy/command/commands/shell.py
index 6aa4ea05d..56e47384d 100644
--- a/scrapy/command/commands/shell.py
+++ b/scrapy/command/commands/shell.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ from twisted.internet import reactor, threads
 
 from scrapy.command import ScrapyCommand
 from scrapy.spider import spiders
-from scrapy.xpath import XmlXPathSelector, HtmlXPathSelector
+from scrapy.selector import XmlXPathSelector, HtmlXPathSelector
 from scrapy.utils.misc import load_object
 from scrapy.conf import settings
 from scrapy.core.manager import scrapymanager
diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/linkextractors/image.py b/scrapy/contrib/linkextractors/image.py
index da34cd800..711623b81 100644
--- a/scrapy/contrib/linkextractors/image.py
+++ b/scrapy/contrib/linkextractors/image.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import urlparse
 from scrapy.link import Link
 from scrapy.utils.url import canonicalize_url, urljoin_rfc
 from scrapy.utils.python import unicode_to_str, flatten
-from scrapy.xpath.selector import XPathSelectorList, HtmlXPathSelector
+from scrapy.selector import XPathSelectorList, HtmlXPathSelector
 
 class HTMLImageLinkExtractor(object):
     '''HTMLImageLinkExtractor objects are intended to extract image links from HTML pages
diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/linkextractors/sgml.py b/scrapy/contrib/linkextractors/sgml.py
index 710684e72..d548626ab 100644
--- a/scrapy/contrib/linkextractors/sgml.py
+++ b/scrapy/contrib/linkextractors/sgml.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ SGMLParser-based Link extractors
 
 import re
 
-from scrapy.xpath import HtmlXPathSelector
+from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector
 from scrapy.link import Link
 from scrapy.utils.misc import arg_to_iter
 from scrapy.utils.python import FixedSGMLParser, unique as unique_list, str_to_unicode
diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/loader/__init__.py b/scrapy/contrib/loader/__init__.py
index b91516696..8de50923c 100644
--- a/scrapy/contrib/loader/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/contrib/loader/__init__.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ See documentation in docs/topics/loaders.rst
 from collections import defaultdict
 
 from scrapy.item import Item
-from scrapy.xpath import HtmlXPathSelector
+from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector
 from scrapy.utils.misc import arg_to_iter
 from .common import wrap_loader_context
 from .processor import Identity
diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/spiders/feed.py b/scrapy/contrib/spiders/feed.py
index 142e8d916..2991fd557 100644
--- a/scrapy/contrib/spiders/feed.py
+++ b/scrapy/contrib/spiders/feed.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from scrapy.contrib.spiders.init import InitSpider
 from scrapy.item import BaseItem
 from scrapy.http import Request
 from scrapy.utils.iterators import xmliter, csviter
-from scrapy.xpath.selector import XmlXPathSelector, HtmlXPathSelector
+from scrapy.selector import XmlXPathSelector, HtmlXPathSelector
 from scrapy.core.exceptions import NotConfigured, NotSupported
 
 class XMLFeedSpider(InitSpider):
diff --git a/scrapy/selector/__init__.py b/scrapy/selector/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..345b3dc51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scrapy/selector/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,153 @@
+"""
+XPath selectors 
+
+See documentation in docs/ref/selectors.rst
+"""
+
+import libxml2
+
+from scrapy.http import TextResponse
+from scrapy.utils.python import flatten, unicode_to_str
+from scrapy.utils.misc import extract_regex
+from scrapy.utils.trackref import object_ref
+from scrapy.utils.decorator import deprecated
+from .factories import xmlDoc_from_html, xmlDoc_from_xml
+from .document import Libxml2Document
+
+__all__ = ['HtmlXPathSelector', 'XmlXPathSelector', 'XPathSelector', \
+    'XPathSelectorList']
+
+class XPathSelector(object_ref):
+
+    __slots__ = ['doc', 'xmlNode', 'expr', '__weakref__']
+
+    def __init__(self, response=None, text=None, node=None, parent=None, expr=None):
+        if parent:
+            self.doc = parent.doc
+            self.xmlNode = node
+        elif response:
+            self.doc = Libxml2Document(response, factory=self._get_libxml2_doc)
+            self.xmlNode = self.doc.xmlDoc
+        elif text:
+            response = TextResponse(url=None, body=unicode_to_str(text), \
+                encoding='utf-8')
+            self.doc = Libxml2Document(response, factory=self._get_libxml2_doc)
+            self.xmlNode = self.doc.xmlDoc
+        self.expr = expr
+
+    def select(self, xpath):
+        """Perform the given XPath query on the current XPathSelector and
+        return a XPathSelectorList of the result"""
+        if hasattr(self.xmlNode, 'xpathEval'):
+            self.doc.xpathContext.setContextNode(self.xmlNode)
+            try:
+                xpath_result = self.doc.xpathContext.xpathEval(xpath)
+            except libxml2.xpathError:
+                raise ValueError("Invalid XPath: %s" % xpath)
+            if hasattr(xpath_result, '__iter__'):
+                return XPathSelectorList([self.__class__(node=node, parent=self, \
+                    expr=xpath) for node in xpath_result])
+            else:
+                return XPathSelectorList([self.__class__(node=xpath_result, \
+                    parent=self, expr=xpath)])
+        else:
+            return XPathSelectorList([])
+
+    def re(self, regex):
+        """Return a list of unicode strings by applying the regex over all
+        current XPath selections, and flattening the results"""
+        return extract_regex(regex, self.extract(), 'utf-8')
+
+    def extract(self):
+        """Return a unicode string of the content referenced by the XPathSelector"""
+        if isinstance(self.xmlNode, basestring):
+            text = unicode(self.xmlNode, 'utf-8', errors='ignore')
+        elif hasattr(self.xmlNode, 'serialize'):
+            if isinstance(self.xmlNode, libxml2.xmlDoc):
+                data = self.xmlNode.getRootElement().serialize('utf-8')
+                text = unicode(data, 'utf-8', errors='ignore') if data else u''
+            elif isinstance(self.xmlNode, libxml2.xmlAttr): 
+                # serialization doesn't work sometimes for xmlAttr types
+                text = unicode(self.xmlNode.content, 'utf-8', errors='ignore')
+            else:
+                data = self.xmlNode.serialize('utf-8')
+                text = unicode(data, 'utf-8', errors='ignore') if data else u''
+        else:
+            try:
+                text = unicode(self.xmlNode, 'utf-8', errors='ignore')
+            except TypeError:  # catched when self.xmlNode is a float - see tests
+                text = unicode(self.xmlNode)
+        return text
+
+    def extract_unquoted(self):
+        """Get unescaped contents from the text node (no entities, no CDATA)"""
+        if self.select('self::text()'):
+            return unicode(self.xmlNode.getContent(), 'utf-8', errors='ignore')
+        else:
+            return u''
+
+    def register_namespace(self, prefix, uri):
+        """Register namespace so that it can be used in XPath queries"""
+        self.doc.xpathContext.xpathRegisterNs(prefix, uri)
+
+    def _get_libxml2_doc(self, response):
+        """Return libxml2 document (xmlDoc) from response"""
+        return xmlDoc_from_html(response)
+
+    def __nonzero__(self):
+        return bool(self.extract())
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return "<%s (%s) xpath=%s>" % (type(self).__name__, getattr(self.xmlNode, \
+            'name', type(self.xmlNode).__name__), self.expr)
+
+    __repr__ = __str__
+
+    @deprecated(use_instead='XPathSelector.select')
+    def __call__(self, xpath):
+        return self.select(xpath)
+
+    @deprecated(use_instead='XPathSelector.select')
+    def x(self, xpath):
+        return self.select(xpath)
+
+
+class XPathSelectorList(list):
+    """List of XPathSelector objects"""
+
+    def __getslice__(self, i, j):
+        return XPathSelectorList(list.__getslice__(self, i, j))
+
+    def select(self, xpath):
+        """Perform the given XPath query on each XPathSelector of the list and
+        return a new (flattened) XPathSelectorList of the results"""
+        return XPathSelectorList(flatten([x.select(xpath) for x in self]))
+
+    def re(self, regex):
+        """Perform the re() method on each XPathSelector of the list, and
+        return the result as a flattened list of unicode strings"""
+        return flatten([x.re(regex) for x in self])
+
+    def extract(self):
+        """Return a list of unicode strings with the content referenced by each
+        XPathSelector of the list"""
+        return [x.extract() if isinstance(x, XPathSelector) else x for x in self]
+
+    def extract_unquoted(self):
+        return [x.extract_unquoted() if isinstance(x, XPathSelector) else x for x in self]
+
+    @deprecated(use_instead='XPathSelectorList.select')
+    def x(self, xpath):
+        return self.select(xpath)
+
+
+class XmlXPathSelector(XPathSelector):
+    """XPathSelector for XML content"""
+    __slots__ = ()
+    _get_libxml2_doc = staticmethod(xmlDoc_from_xml)
+
+
+class HtmlXPathSelector(XPathSelector):
+    """XPathSelector for HTML content"""
+    __slots__ = ()
+    _get_libxml2_doc = staticmethod(xmlDoc_from_html)
diff --git a/scrapy/xpath/document.py b/scrapy/selector/document.py
similarity index 96%
rename from scrapy/xpath/document.py
rename to scrapy/selector/document.py
index e03610637..bc4bb4615 100644
--- a/scrapy/xpath/document.py
+++ b/scrapy/selector/document.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ garbage collection to libxml2 documents (xmlDoc).
 
 import weakref
 
-from scrapy.xpath.factories import xmlDoc_from_html
+from .factories import xmlDoc_from_html
 
 class Libxml2Document(object):
 
diff --git a/scrapy/xpath/factories.py b/scrapy/selector/factories.py
similarity index 100%
rename from scrapy/xpath/factories.py
rename to scrapy/selector/factories.py
diff --git a/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_loader.py b/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_loader.py
index 89d736298..f05cb438a 100644
--- a/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_loader.py
+++ b/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_loader.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ from scrapy.contrib.loader import ItemLoader, XPathItemLoader
 from scrapy.contrib.loader.processor import Join, Identity, TakeFirst, \
     Compose, MapCompose
 from scrapy.item import Item, Field
-from scrapy.xpath import HtmlXPathSelector
+from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector
 from scrapy.http import HtmlResponse
 
 # test items
diff --git a/scrapy/tests/test_xpath.py b/scrapy/tests/test_xpath.py
index 582932132..a802da704 100644
--- a/scrapy/tests/test_xpath.py
+++ b/scrapy/tests/test_xpath.py
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ import weakref
 import libxml2
 
 from scrapy.http import TextResponse, HtmlResponse, XmlResponse
-from scrapy.xpath.selector import XmlXPathSelector, HtmlXPathSelector, \
+from scrapy.selector import XmlXPathSelector, HtmlXPathSelector, \
     XPathSelector
-from scrapy.xpath.document import Libxml2Document
+from scrapy.selector.document import Libxml2Document
 from scrapy.utils.test import libxml2debug
 
 class XPathSelectorTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
diff --git a/scrapy/utils/iterators.py b/scrapy/utils/iterators.py
index 429d920b6..021bc43db 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/iterators.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/iterators.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import re, csv
 
 from scrapy.http import Response
-from scrapy.xpath import XmlXPathSelector
+from scrapy.selector import XmlXPathSelector
 from scrapy import log
 from scrapy.utils.python import re_rsearch, str_to_unicode
 from scrapy.utils.response import body_or_str
diff --git a/scrapy/utils/test.py b/scrapy/utils/test.py
index 4cfb187ff..31f2a2f8b 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/test.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/test.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import os
 
 import libxml2
 
-from scrapy.xpath.document import Libxml2Document
+from scrapy.selector.document import Libxml2Document
 
 def libxml2debug(testfunction):
     """Decorator for debugging libxml2 memory leaks inside a function.
diff --git a/scrapy/xpath/__init__.py b/scrapy/xpath/__init__.py
index 611b8f97e..cef3c9869 100644
--- a/scrapy/xpath/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/xpath/__init__.py
@@ -1,9 +1,5 @@
-"""
-The scrapy.xpath module provides useful classes for selecting HTML and XML
-documents using XPath. It requires libxml2 and its python bindings.
+from scrapy.selector import *
 
-This parent module exports the classes most commonly used when building
-spiders, for convenience.
-"""
-
-from scrapy.xpath.selector import XPathSelector, XmlXPathSelector, HtmlXPathSelector
+import warnings
+warnings.warn("scrapy.xpath module is deprecated, use scrapy.selector instead",
+    DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
diff --git a/scrapy/xpath/selector.py b/scrapy/xpath/selector.py
index 4cdf55200..66f9834ad 100644
--- a/scrapy/xpath/selector.py
+++ b/scrapy/xpath/selector.py
@@ -1,149 +1,5 @@
-"""
-XPath selectors 
+from scrapy.selector import *
 
-See documentation in docs/ref/selectors.rst
-"""
-
-import libxml2
-
-from scrapy.http import TextResponse
-from scrapy.xpath.factories import xmlDoc_from_html, xmlDoc_from_xml
-from scrapy.xpath.document import Libxml2Document
-from scrapy.utils.python import flatten, unicode_to_str
-from scrapy.utils.misc import extract_regex
-from scrapy.utils.trackref import object_ref
-from scrapy.utils.decorator import deprecated
-
-class XPathSelector(object_ref):
-
-    __slots__ = ['doc', 'xmlNode', 'expr', '__weakref__']
-
-    def __init__(self, response=None, text=None, node=None, parent=None, expr=None):
-        if parent:
-            self.doc = parent.doc
-            self.xmlNode = node
-        elif response:
-            self.doc = Libxml2Document(response, factory=self._get_libxml2_doc)
-            self.xmlNode = self.doc.xmlDoc
-        elif text:
-            response = TextResponse(url=None, body=unicode_to_str(text), \
-                encoding='utf-8')
-            self.doc = Libxml2Document(response, factory=self._get_libxml2_doc)
-            self.xmlNode = self.doc.xmlDoc
-        self.expr = expr
-
-    def select(self, xpath):
-        """Perform the given XPath query on the current XPathSelector and
-        return a XPathSelectorList of the result"""
-        if hasattr(self.xmlNode, 'xpathEval'):
-            self.doc.xpathContext.setContextNode(self.xmlNode)
-            try:
-                xpath_result = self.doc.xpathContext.xpathEval(xpath)
-            except libxml2.xpathError:
-                raise ValueError("Invalid XPath: %s" % xpath)
-            if hasattr(xpath_result, '__iter__'):
-                return XPathSelectorList([self.__class__(node=node, parent=self, \
-                    expr=xpath) for node in xpath_result])
-            else:
-                return XPathSelectorList([self.__class__(node=xpath_result, \
-                    parent=self, expr=xpath)])
-        else:
-            return XPathSelectorList([])
-
-    def re(self, regex):
-        """Return a list of unicode strings by applying the regex over all
-        current XPath selections, and flattening the results"""
-        return extract_regex(regex, self.extract(), 'utf-8')
-
-    def extract(self):
-        """Return a unicode string of the content referenced by the XPathSelector"""
-        if isinstance(self.xmlNode, basestring):
-            text = unicode(self.xmlNode, 'utf-8', errors='ignore')
-        elif hasattr(self.xmlNode, 'serialize'):
-            if isinstance(self.xmlNode, libxml2.xmlDoc):
-                data = self.xmlNode.getRootElement().serialize('utf-8')
-                text = unicode(data, 'utf-8', errors='ignore') if data else u''
-            elif isinstance(self.xmlNode, libxml2.xmlAttr): 
-                # serialization doesn't work sometimes for xmlAttr types
-                text = unicode(self.xmlNode.content, 'utf-8', errors='ignore')
-            else:
-                data = self.xmlNode.serialize('utf-8')
-                text = unicode(data, 'utf-8', errors='ignore') if data else u''
-        else:
-            try:
-                text = unicode(self.xmlNode, 'utf-8', errors='ignore')
-            except TypeError:  # catched when self.xmlNode is a float - see tests
-                text = unicode(self.xmlNode)
-        return text
-
-    def extract_unquoted(self):
-        """Get unescaped contents from the text node (no entities, no CDATA)"""
-        if self.select('self::text()'):
-            return unicode(self.xmlNode.getContent(), 'utf-8', errors='ignore')
-        else:
-            return u''
-
-    def register_namespace(self, prefix, uri):
-        """Register namespace so that it can be used in XPath queries"""
-        self.doc.xpathContext.xpathRegisterNs(prefix, uri)
-
-    def _get_libxml2_doc(self, response):
-        """Return libxml2 document (xmlDoc) from response"""
-        return xmlDoc_from_html(response)
-
-    def __nonzero__(self):
-        return bool(self.extract())
-
-    def __str__(self):
-        return "<%s (%s) xpath=%s>" % (type(self).__name__, getattr(self.xmlNode, \
-            'name', type(self.xmlNode).__name__), self.expr)
-
-    __repr__ = __str__
-
-    @deprecated(use_instead='XPathSelector.select')
-    def __call__(self, xpath):
-        return self.select(xpath)
-
-    @deprecated(use_instead='XPathSelector.select')
-    def x(self, xpath):
-        return self.select(xpath)
-
-
-class XPathSelectorList(list):
-    """List of XPathSelector objects"""
-
-    def __getslice__(self, i, j):
-        return XPathSelectorList(list.__getslice__(self, i, j))
-
-    def select(self, xpath):
-        """Perform the given XPath query on each XPathSelector of the list and
-        return a new (flattened) XPathSelectorList of the results"""
-        return XPathSelectorList(flatten([x.select(xpath) for x in self]))
-
-    def re(self, regex):
-        """Perform the re() method on each XPathSelector of the list, and
-        return the result as a flattened list of unicode strings"""
-        return flatten([x.re(regex) for x in self])
-
-    def extract(self):
-        """Return a list of unicode strings with the content referenced by each
-        XPathSelector of the list"""
-        return [x.extract() if isinstance(x, XPathSelector) else x for x in self]
-
-    def extract_unquoted(self):
-        return [x.extract_unquoted() if isinstance(x, XPathSelector) else x for x in self]
-
-    @deprecated(use_instead='XPathSelectorList.select')
-    def x(self, xpath):
-        return self.select(xpath)
-
-
-class XmlXPathSelector(XPathSelector):
-    """XPathSelector for XML content"""
-    __slots__ = ()
-    _get_libxml2_doc = staticmethod(xmlDoc_from_xml)
-
-class HtmlXPathSelector(XPathSelector):
-    """XPathSelector for HTML content"""
-    __slots__ = ()
-    _get_libxml2_doc = staticmethod(xmlDoc_from_html)
+import warnings
+warnings.warn("scrapy.xpath.selector module is deprecated, use scrapy.selector instead",
+    DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)