From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-06-22T02:08:41+09:00
Subject: Re: HTML parsing as good as Perls.

TLOlczyk wrote:
> First let me be very clear. I hate the language that Larry "should be
> lined up against a " Wall has written. IMO it encourages people
> to program with, well only men can program that way, instead of their
> heads.
> 
> However as bad as the language is, LWP is one of the best libraries
> around when it comes to web related applications. Most notablely
> I have never found a library which can parse HTML as well as 
> LWPs HTML parser. It is my eternal hope that I can find a library as
> good, and dump the language.
> 
> 
> With the advent of Ruby on Rails, I am hopeful that there might be a
> package in Ruby that gives Perl's HTML parser a run for it's money.

Look at Narf, and its htmltools and xmltree.
Or Michael Neumann's Mechanize. It wraps htmltools and xmltree.


James

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