From: "Rob ." <rob.02004@...>
Date: 2006-07-14T01:39:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Decent HTML Parser?

On 7/11/06, Kevin Weller
<"http://www.itcrucible.com/contact"@ruby-lang.org> 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.

If you find the Ruby options don't cut it, then I recommend TagSoup
which is implemented in Java but "keeps on trucking" to convert HTML
found in the wild to well-formed XML files:
http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup/

I use it when screenscraping, then load the resulting XML files with REXML.

Rob