diff --git a/sep/sep-006.rst b/sep/sep-006.rst index 47684258d..9cfddf28e 100644 --- a/sep/sep-006.rst +++ b/sep/sep-006.rst @@ -22,16 +22,24 @@ XPath Selectors documentation] says (bolding by me): "When you’re scraping web pages, the most common task you need to perform is to **extract** data from the HTML source." + .. + "Scrapy comes with its own mechanism for **extracting** data. They’re called ``XPath`` selectors (or just “selectors”, for short) because they “select” certain parts of the HTML document specified by ``XPath`` expressions." + .. + "To actually **extract** the textual data you must call the selector ``extract()`` method, as follows" + .. + "Selectors also have a ``re()`` method for **extracting** data using regular expressions." + .. + "For example, suppose you want to **extract** all

elements inside

elements. First you get would get all
elements"