From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2006-03-09T02:36:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there link extractor or similar html processing libs for Ruby

"Bill Kelly" <billk@cts.com> writes:

> From: "James Edward Gray II" <james@grayproductions.net>
>> >
>> > You meant something like this ? (quite dirty but works)
>> >
>> > 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.
>
> Hi, not trying to be argumentative, just surprised.  I thought parsing
> HTML with regexps was pretty easy.  Well, lexing HTML into tokens, I
> mean.

Lex, yes.  Scrape in general, no.

(And those who think that's BS, please have a look at REXML.)

> Regards,
>
> Bill
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