>> require "hpricot" => true >> doc = Hpricot('<p>foo1</p><p>foo2</p>') => #<Hpricot::Doc {elem <p> "foo1" </p>} {elem <p> "foo2" </p>}> >> doc.at('p').node_position => 0 >> doc.search('p')[1].node_position => 1