From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-06-29T05:27:47+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?
>
Hi.  I know I'm a bit late to the discussion, so 'sokay if you have an 
answer already.

A really fantastic HTML parser library is HTree by Tanaka Akira.

  <http://cvs.m17n.org/~akr/htree/>

It's completely forgiving of bad HTML and you can import the document 
into REXML through the HTree parser.

  require 'htree'
  HTree.parse( "<b>Bad markup" ).to_rexml

The only downside is that you'll need to install the iconv library, 
which can be a bit of a pain to track down on Windows.  Other than that, 
it's a great package.

_why