From: Kevin Weller <"http://www.itcrucible.com/contact"@...>
Date: 2006-07-12T09:55:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Decent HTML Parser?

Geoff Davis wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:52:13 -0600, 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.
>> --- snip ---
> 
> You might find Rubyful Soup useful:
> 
> http://www.crummy.com/software/RubyfulSoup/
> 
> It's a bit slow, but it is quite robust to bad HTML.

Ooooh, thanks, that might be just what the doctor ordered...especially 
if it handles a single text line of an HTML document.  Right now I have 
a temporary solution that involves using ruby-htmltools to parse the 
entire document, then finding the part that I want with an XPath query. 
  However, Rubyful Soup might turn out to be a better performer if it 
does what I want.  Thanks so much!