From: transfire@...
Date: 2006-07-12T07:06:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Decent HTML Parser?


Kevin Weller wrote:
> Anybody have experience with a decent HTML parser for a Ruby
> application?  I've looked around, and so far everything I've found is
> either unfinished, unstable, [relatively] undocumented, or just plain
> ugly in terms of API.
>
> I'd like a parser that can take a partial HTML file and return an
> easily-traversable data structure, in the same order that the elements
> appear in the file.  I don't want or need a callback mechanism, only
> something I can iterate and tree-search.  Though I don't hold much hope
> it will work, I will try using REXML on my text and see what it
> produces...results to be posted here.  Thanks in advance!

I also metion Facets' tagiterator.rb (from  ���nyasu's tagiter.rb) For
example:

  a = TagIterator.new(stext)
  a.first("body") do |y|
    y.nth("dl",2) do |dl|
      dl.enumtag("dt") do |t|
        puts t.text.strip
      end
    end
  end

http://facets.rubyforge.org/api/more/classes/TagIterator.html

T.