From: Seth Thomas Rasmussen <sethrasmussen@...>
Date: 2006-07-12T22:10:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Decent HTML Parser?

It was just released recently, but Hpricot might be worth a look:

http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/okayGiveHpricot02AGo.html

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!
>
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> Kevin Weller
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