From: mathew <meta@...>
Date: 2005-06-28T01:45:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way to parse/update HTML file?

Bucco wrote:
> Sorry for the newbie question.  I am trying to find the best metod for
> parsing a HTML file and changinf one tag/item.  Unfortunately, REXML
> chokes on the file because of the incomplete tags.  Completing the tag
> is not an option either.  What is the best way to find a specific tag
> in an html file, change it's text and attribute settings?

For invalid "tag soup" HTML, your best bet is probably to use 
html/htmltokenizer.

<URL:http://rubyforge.org/projects/htmltokenizer/>

It'll search for specified 'tags', returning the text skipped over, 
which you can put into a buffer. Then you can get the attributes of the 
'tag', and modify them, and put the result in the buffer. Finally, you 
can slurp in the rest of the pseudo-HTML.


mathew