From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-12-07T22:37:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Screen scraping an html text contents into a file

Steve Callaway <sjc2000_uk@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> 
> By rendering the html, my interpretation of this was
> that it is merely a question of stripping tags etc,
> which can quickly be accomplished with gsub. Or am I
> missing something?

Even without things like tables, the significance of various whitespace
elements (space, tab, newline) in html is very different from its
significance in the rendered page. e.g. the following can't be done by
just stripping tags:

<ul><li>one
two</li><li>three<li>four</ul>

martin