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need a list of all the US National Parks in XML format

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grab the data from this list on Wikipedia

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navigating a HTML DOM

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jQuery to parse the data

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XPath to your YQL

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relevant table from the Wikipedia document

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SELECT * FROM html WHERE url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_National_Parks_by_state" AND xpath="//table[@class='wikitable sortable']"

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XML or JSON

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creating an XML document

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AJAX call from jQuery and then loop over the JSON

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documentation could maybe be clearer

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CSS style selection engine as well as the XPath one

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on 2009-05-25 by amiigo

added recently- http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/04/yql_execute.html