From: Dave Howell <groups@...>
Date: 2006-07-12T10:09:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Decent HTML Parser?


On Jul 11, 2006, at 17:55, Kevin Weller wrote:

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!

Yup, sounds like what you want.

I would have preferred to just parse the whole page in my app, but Soup 
is so slow that I had to regex a bunch of the noise out of the way. I 
throw the remnants to Soup; after which everything's really easy.