From: Kevin Weller <"http://www.itcrucible.com/contact"@...>
Date: 2006-07-12T09:50:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Decent HTML Parser?

Thanks for the reply.  I've basically reviewed every potential match 
generated by:

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/search.rhtml?search=html+parser

I've since tried out a couple, and the option that seems to work best so 
far is Ned Konz' ruby-htmltools.  Unfortunately, it does not seem to 
parse partial HTML documents well, so I've had to resort to parsing the 
whole thing, extracting a REXML document object, then using XPath to get 
to the content I care about.  Seems like a waste of processing power 
when I can get the necessary markup in text with a simple file.grep 
operation and (theoretically) parse only the text that I want, but at 
least I have something that works until/unless something better comes 
along.  Any recommendations?

Kenosis wrote:
> To help us narrow things down, can you tell us which Ruby HTML mods
> you've tried out?
> 
> Ken
> 
> 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.