From: Mark Thomas <mrt@...>
Date: 2005-06-22T02:25:36+09:00
Subject: Re: HTML parsing as good as Perls.

> I'm nt looking for an XML parser, XML parsers just can't handle
> many of the web sites I want to parse. Neither can expat,libxml2
> or some of the more popular libraries.

Have you tried libxml2 in parse_html mode with the recover option on?
I've never had a problem with any site. It handles broken, nasty HTML
quite nicely.

(Disclaimer: I don't know if the Ruby bindings expose this
functionality).