From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2006-05-12T05:31:13+09:00
Subject: Re: extract DIV from HTML

Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> You want to use XPath. Check out the XPath section of the following 
> document:
> 
> http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml/docs/tutorial.html
> 
> For your specific case, the XPath query would be something like this:
> 
> //div[@class='whatever']

Depends.  If the large HTML file is indeed a LARGE file, then REXML 
XPath may be CPU/memory intensive.

If so, the REXML pull or stream parsers work quite nicely for this sort 
of thing.

I'd also suggest WWW::Mechanize.

(I also saw a suggestion for RubyfulSoup, but my experience is that it 
bogs down on large files. )


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