From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2006-07-04T14:52:31+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Hpricot 0.1 -- quick, cinchy HTML parsing


On Jul 3, 2006, at 10:28 PM, why the lucky stiff wrote:

> Associates worldwide, here is some unpolished software for you.   
> You'll need a
> compiler to install this one and the `iconv' library installed.
>
>   gem install hpricot --source code.whytheluckystiff.net
>
> Hpricot is a fast HTML parser, based on HTree.  I converted the  
> HTree scanner to
> C and I'm just now reworking the parser.  I've also started adding  
> a bunch of
> nice methods to HTree so that you won't have any desire to use  
> REXML objects
> instead.
>
>   doc = File.open(path) { |f| Hpricot.parse(f) }
>
>   # supports xpath
>   doc.search("//p/a").set("href", "http://google.com")
>
>   # supports css selectors
>   doc.search("#menu .box").each { |ele| p ele }
>
>   # slash is a shortcut
>   (doc/"#menu box").each ...
>
>   # symbols also imply css selectors of tag names
>   (doc/:p/:a).set("href", "http://google.com")
>
> The Hpricot scanner uses Ragel (the same state machine used by  
> Mongrel) and is
> able to whip through hundreds of HTML documents in a second.  (I'm  
> benchmarking
> against the sizeable Boing Boing home page, Slashdot, and others.)   
> However,
> this release still includes some of HTree's existing code, which  
> slows things
> down quite a bit and will be phased out over the next few releases.
>
> Anyway, I have high hopes for this little guy.  Please don't forget  
> to say the
> name right.  It's H-pricot.  Like: AYYCHH-pricot.
>
> Subversion is here: http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/svn/hpricot/ 
> trunk.
>
> Gracias, mi rubistos!
>
> _why
>

	Very nice. Thanks _why

-Ezra