From: "Marcin Mielżyński" <lopexx@...>
Date: 2006-03-08T03:58:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there link extractor or similar html processing libs for Ruby

James Edward Gray II wrote:

>> puts open("some.html").read.scan(/<a href="?(.+?)"?>/)
> 
> No, it doesn't, trust me.  ;)  Toss a simple "\n" in there and you're sunk:
> 
> <a
>  href="whatever">
> 
> Parsing HTML is hard and you don't want to use regular expressions to do 
> it.
> 
> James Edward Gray II
> 
> 
> 


Yep, I realized that after seeing xerces sources :D

lopex